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La notion d'extrémisme est une notion confuse. Censée permettre une classification, elle est surtout une diabolisation de l'adversaire. Mais ce terme polémique oublie souvent de décrire ce qu'il considère comme le Mal absolu. Il faut donc s'efforcer de dissocier, dans le discours politique, les réactions passionnelles et les réflexes idéologiques des menaces objectives, ce qui n'est guère facile. Les incarnations de la condamnation pour extrémisme...
43) La muerte del verdugo: Reflexiones interdisciplinarias sobre el cadáver de los criminales de masa
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La muerte de Jorge Rafael Videla se inscribe en un decenio marcado por el fallecimiento de numerosos criminales de masa. Ésta sigue a las de Slobodan Milosevic, Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden o Muamar el Gadafi. En todos los casos, las preguntas que abren estas muertes tan singulares son idénticas, aunque se sitúan en contextos diferentes: ¿cuándo y cómo fallecieron esos criminales? ¿Qué hacer con sus restos? ¿Cómo aprehender...
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Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a choice which later became one of the grounds for his exile to Switzerland following Hitler's rise to power. The magician, Cipolla, is analogous to the looming specter of fascism emergent in that era. The story was especially timely, considering the tensions in Europe when it was written, Mussolini was urging Italians to recapture the glory of the Roman...
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Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.
We live today within a system in which state and corporate power aim to render space flat, transparent, and uniform, for only then can it be truly controlled. The gaze of power and the commodity form are capable of infiltrating even the darkest of corners, and often, we invite them into our most private spaces. We do so as...
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In The Antifa: Stories from Inside the Black Bloc, Posobiec recounts his firsthand experiences infiltrating their 2016 meetings, where they planned their attack on Trump's inauguration, to going undercover in Seattle's CHAZ in 2020. Posobiec uncovers the secret history of this radical anarchist group and follows their trail from their earliest days in Weimar Germany, to the battlefields of Syria, to within the borders of the Western Civilization they...
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of the most admired public servants in American history, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state
A Fascist, observed Madeleine Albright, "is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights
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The former U.S. secretary of state presents a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace.
"A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. A Fascist, observes...
49) North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
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One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, and fault lines are appearing in the government's sealed informational borders. Drawing on deeply personal interviews with North Korean defectors from all walks of life, ranging from propaganda artists to diplomats, Jieun Baek tells the story of North...
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"Winner of a 2008 Lannan Notable Book Award, Lannan Foundation" Sheldon S. Wolin (1922-2015) was professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University. His books include Politics and Vision and Tocqueville between Two Worlds (both Princeton).
Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has...
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"Miserias del poder" pretende contribuir a que el debate público sobre el franquismo incluya en su agenda no sólo el importantísimo problema de la represión sino también el del funcionamiento, e intereses, del poder o las actitudes políticas de sus apoyos sociales. Entender críticamente, y en toda su amplitud, la dictadura nos permitirá valorar su lugar en nuestra historia contemporánea y comprender las razones de su «olvido».
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This book is a newly revised edition of Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera\u2019s classic work The Green Shirts and the Others published by the Hoover Institution Press in 1970. This book is the standard work in English on the history of fascism in Romania and Hungary. The Green Shirts and the Others is the first comprehensive and comparative work in English on the history of the fascist movements in Hungary and Romania. The author presents an objective account...
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Las memorias son procesos subjetivos e intersubjetivos, anclados en experiencias y marcos institucionales. Con sus recuerdos, silencios y olvidos, son siempre plurales y, en general, se contraponen o entran en conflicto unas con otras.
En Los trabajos de la memoria, Elizabeth Jelin explora algunas herramientas para analizar los sentidos del pasado a través de una rigurosa investigación sobre las memorias de la represión política en el Cono Sur...
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A 2019 Italian Bestseller
"an antidote to all the nonsense still circulating about fascism…. Filippi is almost surgical in the way he reestablishes the context." La Repubblica Book of the Month
"In the existing climate, Francesco Filippi's scalpel is of utmost importance" Le Monde
"Francesco Filippi's book is very timely and relevant … a lesson on a past that simply doesn't go away." Corriere Della Sera
Surgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi...
55) The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
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Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodernism's infatuation with fascism has been extensive and widespread. He questions postmodernism's claim to have inherited the mantle of the Left, suggesting instead that it has long been enamored with...
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Un elogio del poder de la palabra y de cómo lo que decimos puede tener resultados tangibles
En estos tiempos en el que los nervios y las emociones se encuentran a flor de piel, este libro surge con un propósito filosófico-político: pensar con los lectores sobre cuestiones de cultura política que se viven día a día, de un modo abierto, sin caer en la jerga académica. El argumento principal es cómo pensar en un método o una postura que se...
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This collection of essays aims to give a picture - albeit partial - of the history of the Jews in Italy from Unity to today. The Church's anti-Jewish policy is re-examined, as evidenced by the relevant traces in Renaissance figurative art, the position of the Jews from the Unification to the First World War and their participation in public affairs / social and political life, which studies confirm also important to the internal fascism until a few...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005" A. James Gregor is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Italian Fascism and Developmental Dictatorship and The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics (Princeton), and The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century (Yale). He has been awarded the title Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic by the Italian government...
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The eighteen months between June 2016 and the end of 2017 saw the victory of Leave in Britain's EU referendum, the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and unprecedented support for Marine Le Pen of the Front National in her campaign for the same office in France. Nearly a decade after the great financial crash, it is these figures and the alarmingly confident and radical version of right-wing politics they represent that have...
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Founded in 1927, Romania's Legion of the Archangel Michael was one of Europe's largest and longest-lived fascist social movements. In Holy Legionary Youth, Roland Clark draws on oral histories, memoirs, and substantial research in the archives of the Romanian secret police to provide the most comprehensive account of the Legion in English to date. Clark approaches Romanian fascism by asking what membership in the Legion meant to young Romanian men...
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