The Legacies of Totalitarianism
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The Legacies of Totalitarianism

A Theoretical Framework

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The Legacies of Totalitarianism

A Theoretical Framework

About this book

The first political theory of post-Communism examines its implications for understanding liberty, rights, transitional justice, property rights, privatization, rule of law, centrally planned public institutions, and the legacies of totalitarian thought in language and discourse. The transition to post-totalitarianism was the spontaneous adjustment of the rights of the late-totalitarian elite to its interest. Post-totalitarian governments faced severe scarcity in the supply of justice. Rough justice punished the perpetrators and compensated their victims. Historical theories of property rights became radical, and consequentialist theories, conservative. Totalitarianism in Europe disintegrated but did not end. The legacies of totalitarianism in higher education met New Public Management, totalitarian central planning under a new label. Totalitarianism divorced language from reality through the use of dialectics that identified opposites and the use of logical fallacies to argue for ideological conclusions. This book illustrates these legacies in the writings of Habermas, Derrida, and Žižek about democracy, personal responsibility, dissidence, and totalitarianism.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Reviews
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Post-Totalitarianism: The Adjustment of Elite Rights to Interests
  11. 2 Post-Totalitarian Rough Justice
  12. 3 Rough Justice: Post-Totalitarian Retribution
  13. 4 Rough and Shallow: Post-Totalitarian Rectification
  14. 5 The New Politics of Property Rights
  15. 6 Old to New Totalitarianism: Post-Totalitarian Higher Education
  16. 7 Short-Circuiting Reason: The Legacies of Totalitarian Thinking
  17. Conclusion: Only Dissidents Can Save Us Now
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index