The third installment in Slavoj Zizek's essay series, Zizek's Essays, exploring the various 'liberal' fascisms which pervade contemporary political and social life. The third installment in Slavoj Zizek's essay series, Zizek's Essays, exploring the various 'liberal' fascisms which pervade contemporary political and social life.

With a contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, ''Liberal Fascism'', Slavoj Zizek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism. To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and a dictatorial fascist is to expose liberalism and fascism as two sides of the same coin. It is a concept that offers a glimpse into the murky landscape of half-lies and double-truths that Zizek enters in this latest collection of urgent essays. From the economy and politics to ideology, these short texts work through the different faces of liberal fascism, structured around a trio of the universal, the particular, and the single: our global predicament; Europe and the Middle East; Trump''s US. Peeling back the inadequate labels we hasten to pin on the phenomena that terrify us - like ''post-truth''- to peer at the seeping wounds beneath them, they reveal the uneasy mixture of lies and truths that have always been stacked, matryoshka like, inside of one another. With no cure in hand, but a refusal to dispense with thought that is muddled and murky, they are timely and utterly urgent. From the so-called "death of truth" opens up the possibility for a new authentic truth. or for an even worse big Lie. And we must ask - what forms of justice are made possible by this disorder?

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Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, 'Liberal Fascisms', Slavoj Zizek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism.

To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is to expose liberalism and fascism as two sides of the same coin. The concept offers a glimpse into the murky landscape of half-lies and double-truths that Zizek enters in this latest collection of urgent essays.

From the economy and politics to ideology, these short texts work through the different faces of liberal fascism, structured around a trio of the universal, the particular, and the single: our global predicament; Europe and the Middle East; Trump's America. Peeling back the inadequate labels we hasten to pin on the phenomena that terrify us - like 'post-truth'- to peer at the seeping wounds beneath them, these writings reveal the uneasy mixture of lies and truths that have always been stacked, matryoshka like, inside of one another.

With no cure in hand, but a refusal to dispense with thought that is muddled and murky, the essays are timely and resolute. From the so-called "death of truth" opens up the possibility for a new authentic truth. or for an even worse big Lie. And we must ask - what forms of justice are made possible by this disorder?

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Inhalt

Introduction: From the Standpoint of Eternity

Part One: The Global Mess We're In
Altona, Los Angeles: From the Nearby to the Neighbour
The Ambivalence of De-Commodification
Decolonization and the Public Use of Reason
Let It Rot...
Re-staging the Event

Part Two: Local Turbulences
Dark Humour in the Reign of Daddy Cool
Next Year in Gaza!
Sumud: Remember This Word
Peace for Our Time
The Story of Three Faces

Part Three: The Black Hole of our World
Let's Pray Trump Survives
Grab 'em by the Pussy
Why Evil Men Need Noble Spirits
Donald Trump as a Gramscian
Mamdani's Wager

Conclusion: Abandon All Hope, You Who Enter Radical Politics

Notes
Index