Palgrave Macmillan | The Sacralization Of Time: Contemporary Affinities Between Crisis And Fascism (2020 EN)

Author: João Nunes de Almeida
Full Title: The Sacralization Of Time: Contemporary Affinities Between Crisis And Fascism
Publisher: ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2020 edition (June 8, 2020)
Year: 2020
ISBN-13: 9783030465438 (978-3-030-46543-8), 9783030465421 (978-3-030-46542-1), 9783030465452 (978-3-030-46545-2)
ISBN-10: 3030465438, 303046542X, 3030465454
Pages: 159
Language: English
Genre: Liberation Theology
File type: PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 85.58 €


In this book, João Nunes de Almeida rethinks the relationship between crisis and fascism in today’s liberal democratic societies. Arguing that fascism has adapted to a post-modern idea of endless crisis, Almeida challenges one of the strongest liberal myths in western politics, namely that fascism and liberal democracy have different roots. Fascism, in Almeida’s view, is at the center of the very production of social relations in western capitalist societies, and is the result of the very desire to be saved from crisis underlying liberal democracy. It draws on stormy examples from Portugal’s contemporary history, with a particular focus on its fascist past and revolution, to explore affinities between crisis and fascism in other spatial and historical contexts. João Nunes de Almeida concludes that refusing to be saved from crisis becomes the refusal of any form of fascism in a more global context.


Overview:
✓ Analyzes the relations between the crises in contemporary capitalism and the rise of fascism
✓ Draws on examples from Portugal's contemporary history
✓ Crosses research fields such as Critical Theory, Contemporary Continental Thought, Marxian Crisis Theory, Contemporary Modern History, Political Theology, and Foucauldian driven discourse analysis

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