Format:
viii, 159 Seiten
ISBN:
9783030465421
Series Statement:
Radical theologies and philosophies
Content:
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.
Note:
Literaturangaben
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030465438
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Nunes de Almeida, João The Sacralization of Time Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2020 ISBN 9783030465438
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
;
Krise
;
Faschismus
;
Kapitalismus
;
Theologie
;
Politische Theorie