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EAN : 9782258201644
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Pages : 272
Size : 120 x 210 mm
Totalitarism (without goulag)

Collection : La Cité
Release date : 09/11/2023
Totalitarian temptation is back, but we don’t see it because we think the concept is inseparable from the Gulag and its methods...
At the end of the twentieth century, we wanted to believe that totalitarianism was a question for historians only. It was forever frozen in the guise of Nazism, Fascism or Communism. Wrong. It represents an irreducible pathology in our modern life, which always returns hidden behind different faces.

This new totalitarianism...
At the end of the twentieth century, we wanted to believe that totalitarianism was a question for historians only. It was forever frozen in the guise of Nazism, Fascism or Communism. Wrong. It represents an irreducible pathology in our modern life, which always returns hidden behind different faces.

This new totalitarianism transforms Western societies into immense laboratories devoted to social engineering. It puts in place social control mechanisms that sometimes undermine freedom of expression.

But we are unable to detect this process because our conceptual tools for spotting and criticizing it are outdated, anachronistic and ill adapted...
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EAN : 9782258201644
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 272
Size : 120 x 210 mm
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