{"product_id":"slavoj-zizek","title":"Slavoj Žižek: Liberal Fascisms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBloomsbury Academic, 2026, softcover, 200 pages, 13 x 19.6 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWith an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, ‘Liberal Fascisms’, Slavoj\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eŽižek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo see this phenomenon as purely liberal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 Žižek enters in this latest collection of urgent essays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ealways\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebeen stacked, matryoshka like, inside of one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58013802201472,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/31QQbRcTj7L._SY445_SX342_ML2.jpg?v=1777633360","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/slavoj-zizek","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}