Autocracy, totalitarianism and dictatorship Books
Basic Books 1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year
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£25.60
Michigan State University Press (New) Fascism: Contagion, Community, Myth
Book SynopsisFascism tends to be relegated to a dark chapter of European history, but what if new forms of fascism are currently returning to the forefront of the political scene? In this book, Nidesh Lawtoo furthers his previous diagnostic of crowd behaviour, identification, and mimetic contagion to account for the growing shadow cast by authoritarian leaders who rely on new media to take possession of the digital age.Donald Trump is considered here as a case study to illustrate Nietzsche’s untimely claim that, one day, “‘actors’, all kinds of actors, will be the real masters”. In the process, Lawtoo joins forces with a genealogy of mimetic theorists - from Plato to Girard, through Nietzsche, Tarde, Le Bon, Freud, Bataille, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy, among others - to show that (new) fascism may not be fully “new”, let alone original; yet it effectively reloads the old problematics of mimesis via new media that have the disquieting power to turn politics itself into a fiction.
£16.10
University of Massachusetts Press The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary
Book SynopsisBy producing literature in nontraditional forms—books made of cardboard trash, posters in subway stations, miniature shopping bags, digital publications, and even children’s toys—Chileans have made and circulated literary objects in defiance of state censorship and independent of capitalist definitions of value. In The Labor of Literature Jane D. Griffin studies amateur and noncommercial forms of literary production in Chile that originated in response to authoritarian state politics and have gained momentum throughout the postdictatorship period. She argues that such forms advance a model of cultural democracy that differs from and sometimes contradicts the model endorsed by the state and the market.By examining alternative literary publications, Griffin recasts the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship as a time of editorial experimentation despite widespread cultural oppression and shows how grassroots cultural activism has challenged government-approved corporate publishing models throughout the postdictatorship period. Griffin’s work also points to the growing importance of autogestión, or do-it-yourself cultural production, where individuals combine artisanal forms with new technologies to make and share creative work on a global scale.Trade ReviewA smart, engaging analysis of emergent forms of literary production and distribution in the context of Chile’s violent dictatorship, radical neoliberal restructuring of the economy, and eventual transition to democracy, this book is thoughtful and well written, breaking vital new ground in Latin American cultural studies.""—Alice Nelson, author of Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature
£22.75
Bloomsbury Publishing USA How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in
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£16.14
BookBaby The Deplorables: America Interrupted
£17.09
Bohlau Verlag Faschismus?: Zur Beliebigkeit eines politischen
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£43.95
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Revolution in Potsdam: Eine Stadt Zwischen
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£35.00
Bohlau Verlag Europas Vergessene Diktaturen?: Diktatur Und
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£44.41
Bohlau Verlag Zeitgeschichte der Dinge: Spurensuchen in der
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£46.45
Bohlau Verlag Der Preis der Deutschen Einheit: Michail
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£61.58
Duncker & Humblot Dictatorship Democracy and Transitional Justice
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£91.31
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Junger-Debatte: Band 2 (2019): Zwischen Mythos
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£42.75
Brill Schoningh Moderne Antimoderne: Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck
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£137.60
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Uber Italienischen Faschismus Und Totalitarismus
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£71.91
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Umwelt und Herrschaft in der DDR: Politik,
Book SynopsisDie Umweltbilanz der DDR fällt bitter aus. Doch während die vorhandenen Umweltprobleme in den achtziger Jahren in einen unversöhnlichen Konflikt zwischen dem SED-Staat und Teilen der Gesellschaft mündeten, hatte die Situation gut zwanzig Jahre zuvor ganz anders ausgesehen. Die Verabschiedung des Landeskulturgesetzes im Jahr 1970 markierte einen Aufbruch, der nicht nur eine Verbesserung der Umweltsituation in Aussicht stellte, sondern auch gesellschaftliches Umweltengagement gezielt förderte.Die Studie untersucht die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Aushandlung von Umweltfragen in der sozialistischen Diktatur. Der Fokus ist auf die politische Kommunikation in Eingaben, gesellschaftliche Initiativen und die verschiedenartigen Räume des Mitmachens gerichtet. Auf diese Weise ist es nicht nur möglich, die Hintergründe des ökologischen Niederganges jenseits teleologischer Deutungsmuster ausgewogen darzustellen, sondern auch die Vielfalt des Umwelthandelns im Staatssozialismus zu beleuchten.
£81.04
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Nach Den Diktaturen: Der Umgang Mit Den Opfern in
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£82.32
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 'Anschluss' - Marz/April 1938 in Osterreich
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£44.00
Sandstein Verlag Verurteilt. Inhaftiert. Hingerichtet.: Politische
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£39.75
Viella Editrice 1940: Il Fascismo Sceglie La Guerra
£26.44
Viella Editrice I Confini Di Una Persecuzione
£29.83
