Pour une critique de la catégorie de totalitarisme
The Case for a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism. In this article Domenico Losurdo sketches a history of the category of totalitarianism, rehearsing the various shifts it has been subject to since the October revolution. While the roots of the notion are to be located both in the viol...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Français |
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2004
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The Case for a Critique of the Category of
Totalitarianism.
In this article Domenico Losurdo sketches a history of the category of
totalitarianism, rehearsing the various shifts it has been subject to since the
October revolution. While the roots of the notion are to be located both in the
violence inflected by the colonial enterprise upon indigenous populations
and the violence exercised at the very heart of the capitalist metropolis, upon
the poor and the outcast, such violence did take on a number of
unprecedented characteristics in the twentieth century phenomenon of total
war. The imperatives of the cold war were subsequently to lead western
liberals to the formulation of a strange indictment of the revolutionary |
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