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When the logics of the world collapse – Žižek with and against Arendt on 'totalitarianism' Sharpe, Matthew 2010, When the logics of the world collapse – Žižek with and against Arendt on 'totalitarianism', Subjectivity : International journal of critical psychology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 53-75. Title When the logics of the world collapse – Žižek with and against Arendt on 'totalitarianism' Author(s) Sharpe, Matthew Journal name Subjectivity : International journal of critical psychology Volume number 3 Issue number 1 Start page 53 End page 75 Publisher Macmillan Publishers Ltd Place of publication London, England Publication date 2010-04 ISSN 1755-6341 1755-635X Keyword(s) Zizek Arendt totalitarianism Stalinism Summary Despite Žižek's polemical attacks on Hannah Arendt, their writings on totalitarianism share significant similarities. Žižek's Lacanian analysis of the distortion of the elementary symbolic coordinates of human sociability in Stalinism refines Arendt's controversial account of the role of ideologies in totalitarian regimes; it brings to the political field an account of subjectivity and its relation to language derived from (Lacanian) psychoanalysis. Reading Žižek's analyses of Stalinist and fascist ideologies preserves – by psychoanalytically reframing – the radical philosophical register of Arendt's understanding of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes as attempting the systematic destruction of ‘world’ – the in-between public space of shared political human experience and action. Žižek's psychoanalytic framework allows us to address the tendency in Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism to conflate fascism and Stalinism and also to question the motives for these regimes’ political and ontological violences. Field of Research 220318 Psychoanalytic Philosophy Socio Economic Objective 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30025501 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of International and Political Studies Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 19 Mar 2010, 11:25:10 EST Fri, 19 Mar 2010, 11:43:05 EST Fri, 19 Mar 2010, 13:20:57 EST Wed, 24 Mar 2010, 09:06:08 EST Tue, 20 Apr 2010, 10:06:10 EST Wed, 21 Apr 2010, 08:45:12 EST Tue, 27 Apr 2010, 12:53:29 EST Tue, 27 Apr 2010, 12:55:23 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 446 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 19 Mar 2010, 11:25:06 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas

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