{"product_id":"liberal-fascisms-zizeks-essays-1","title":"Liberal Fascisms (Zizek's Essays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Slavoj Zizek\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4\/30\/2026, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781350573161\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, \"Liberal Fascisms\", Slavoj\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eZizek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo see this phenomenon as purely liberal \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e dictatorially fascistic is to expose liberalism and fascism as two sides of the same coin. The concept offers a glimpse into the murky landscape of half-lies and double-truths that Zizek enters in this latest collection of urgent essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the economy and politics to ideology, these short texts work through the different faces of liberal fascisms, structured around a trio of the universal, the particular, and the singular: our global predicament; Europe and the Middle East; Trump's America. Peeling back the inadequate labels we hasten to pin on the phenomena that terrify us - like 'post-truth'- to peer at the seeping wounds beneath them, these writings reveal the uneasy mixture of hypocrisy, self-deception and what is real that have \u003ci\u003ealways \u003c\/i\u003ebeen stacked, matryoshka like, inside of one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith no cure in hand, but a refusal to dispense with thought that is muddled and murky, these interventions are both timely and resolute. From the so-called \"death of truth\" opens up the possibility for a new authentic truth... or for an even bigger lie. And ultimately we must ask - what forms of justice are made possible by this disorder?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Forcing the debate onto this harder ground is itself a significant contribution - one Zizek, characteristically, makes with intellectual force and stylistic verve.\" -- \u003ci\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Zizek\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52598789701915,"sku":"Liberal Fascisms","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/9781350573161.jpg?v=1784145648","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/liberal-fascisms-zizeks-essays-1","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}