Totalitarianism, as an ideological notion, guarantees the liberal-democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.
The ferociously productive Slovenian philosopher now takes up one
of those heavy, predictable, unpromising topics-totalitarianism-and
manages to produce a whirling carnival of political critique,
cultural interpretations, and ornery bombast.
*New Political Science*
As an alternative to the current post-modernist cult of cynicism
and retreat into islands of privacy and nihilism ... the five
essays making up Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? insist on the
social link and offer the visionary strength for resistance against
all forms of totalized explanations.
*World Literature Today*
This attempt to rethink the conditions of radical political action
is one of a number of signs that, after the doldrums of the 1980s
and 1990s, left-wing thought is beginning to revive. It will be
fascinating to follow where the flood of eloquence and imagination
next sweeps Slavoj Zizek.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Zizek is an entertaining writer who would command attention if he
were just describing how to mix cement. He wastes no time in
tilting at the taken-for-granted ... Zizek wants to find the cracks
in the notion of totalitarianism and fill them with dynamite.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
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