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Demolishing Humanity through Pleasure and Pain: Reading Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 Side by Side

open access: yesJournal of Language and Literature, 2023
Oligarchical collectivism that supports totalitarianism silences freedom of speech, privacy, assembly, etc. both personal and communal through horrific pain or plentiful pleasure.
Reimundus Raymond Fatubun
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Castoriadis and social theory:from marginalization to canonization to re-radicalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter examines Cornelius Castoriadis's trajectory from obscurity and the margins of post-war French intellectual and political milieu to the misappropriation and canonization of his thought after the 1970s and argues for a re-radicalization of his
Memos, Christos
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Continuity and Discontinuity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper argues that antizionism must be understood, like the antisemitism that came before it, as an ideology. Here I draw upon Arendt’s definition of ideology as a radical distortion of social and political relations.
Seymour, D.
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Ewolucja obrazów totalitaryzmów XX wieku na przykładzie filmów fabularnych oraz seriali telewizyjnych

open access: yesStudia Theologica Varsaviensia, 2018
The Images of the Twentieth Century Totalitarianism as They Evolved in Film and TV Productions - Summary The author presents the evolution of the cinematic images of twentieth century totalitarianism in selected European feature films as well as in ...
Grzegorz Łęcicki
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Totalitarismo morbido in Günther Anders

open access: yesMontesquieu.it, 2014
According to G. Anders totalitarianism arises from the age of technology: political totalitarianism, though terrible, is only an effect of the technological one.
Romina Martinelli
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Vom „erfolgreichen Durchdringen des nationalen Gedankens“ und dem „Sieg der demokratischen Grundsätze“. Deutungsmuster von Nation und Demokratie in Oberschlesien, dem Teschener Schlesien und der Orava (1918/19)

open access: yesZeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
After the end of World War I, Eastern Europe entered a period of upheaval. The continental empires dissolved and new nation-states emerged. Following the ideas of Woodrow Wilson, democratization became the dominant political concept.
Sebastian Ramisch-Paul   +1 more
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Hegel: Why Liberal Thought Is Not Anti-Totalitarian Enough

open access: yesProfil, 2020
This paper discusses totalitarianism against the background of Hegel’s concept of ethical life (Sittlichkeit). It employs Hegel’s concept of experience from the Phenomenology of Spirit so that the reader could “experience” totalitarianism (in Hegel’s ...
Tomáš Korda
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Albert Camus et la démocratie comme alternative aux totalitarismes du xxe siècle

open access: yesCarnets, 2015
This article proposes a (re)reading of Camus creation from the perspective of the democracy in order to demonstrate the innovative aspect of his thought, which is more actual than ever.
Emanuela Celotto
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Hannah Arendt's Ghosts:Reflections on the Disputable Path from Windhoek to Auschwitz [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Historians on both sides of the Atlantic are currently engaged in a controversy about the allegedly genocidal nature of western colonialism and its connections with the mass violence unleashed by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945.
Angrick   +112 more
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Wilsons Moment? Wilsons Deutungen von Demokratie und Nation, ihre nationalen Rezeptionen und die Bedeutung für die Grenzkonflikte in Oberschlesien, dem Teschener Schlesien und der Orava

open access: yesZeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
While the discussion in historical scholarship to date has focused undoubtedly on Wilson’s importance to the postulate of national self-determination, this paper shifts the focus and shows that the linchpin of Wilson’s thinking was democracy.
Steffen Kailitz
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