| Title | : | The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity |
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| ISBN | : | 3956795334 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9783956795336 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 |
| Publication | : | Published August 1, 2024 |
Tracing the relation between fascism and settler colonialism.
In the aftermath of World War II, the recently liberated nations in Europe were swift to resume colonial oppression abroad. On May 8, 1945, the day victory was celebrated by the Allies, the French police massacred hundreds of townspeople in Sétif, leading the French editor Claude Bourdet to ask, “Are we the Gestapo in Algeria?”
In Europe, what is called “fascism,” poet Aimé Césaire argued in his famous essay “Discourse on Colonialism,” is just colonial violence finding its way back home. In White West, contributors challenge the Eurocentrism that undergirds the current concept of fascism, tackling the under-theorized relation between settler colonialism and National Socialism via the “proto-totalitarian” scene of colonial expansion and its racialized concept of personhood, in order to counter the antipolitical nature of a concept such as the West, and the resurgence of fascist doctrines this notion engenders.
In the aftermath of World War II, the recently liberated nations in Europe were swift to resume colonial oppression abroad. On May 8, 1945, the day victory was celebrated by the Allies, the French police massacred hundreds of townspeople in Sétif, leading the French editor Claude Bourdet to ask, “Are we the Gestapo in Algeria?”
In Europe, what is called “fascism,” poet Aimé Césaire argued in his famous essay “Discourse on Colonialism,” is just colonial violence finding its way back home. In White West, contributors challenge the Eurocentrism that undergirds the current concept of fascism, tackling the under-theorized relation between settler colonialism and National Socialism via the “proto-totalitarian” scene of colonial expansion and its racialized concept of personhood, in order to counter the antipolitical nature of a concept such as the West, and the resurgence of fascist doctrines this notion engenders.
The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity Reviews
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Why are people who do not want to communicate with other human beings writing 20+ page "essays"? And why are publishers publishing them? And why are spaces open to the lay public selling these books like they would be worth anyone's time?
The worthwhile parts of this 246 pages collection of essays can probably be summed up in 2 pages. -
Good ideas explored in the book, a weird format at times (poetry) -yes I know I poet has written this-. Sometimes trying to be over the top politically correct
