Title The sacralization of time : contemporary affinities between crisis and fascism / João Nunes de Almeida

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Radical theologies and philosophies Radical theologies and philosophies. Contents Introduction -- Book Outline -- Researching on Crisis: Challenges, Paradoxes and Ambulant Realities -- Crisis and Fascism in Contemporary Portugal Chapter 1: Theology of Crisis -- Introduction -- Debt, Angels and Violence -- Spinozan God as Capital Chapter 2: Politics of Crisis -- Introduction -- Politics as Freedom, Civil War and the Micro-Politics of Desire -- Deterring the Suicidal State: Fascism and Logistics -- The Liberal Sacred Spaces of Politics Chapter 3: Language of Crisis -- Introduction -- The Fascist Temporality of Crisis: Salvation and Restrain of Disorders -- Rationalities of Crisis and the Metonymical Performativity of the Corporate Body Chapter 4: Experience of Crisis -- Introduction -- The In-Between Temporality of Crisis -- People, Population and the Exhausted Chapter 5: Refusal of Crisis -- Introduction -- The Refusal of Chronos -- Praxis and Ontology of Crisis Refusal -- Community without Utopia Conclusion Summary In this book, João Nunes de Almeida rethinks the relationship between crisis and fascism in todays 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 Almeidas 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 Portugals 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 06, 2020) Subject Fascism. Fascism -- Social aspects Crises -- Political aspects Democracy. Crises -- Portugal -- History Fascism -- Portugal -- History fascism. Democracy Crises -- Political aspects Crises Fascism Portugal Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 3030465438 9783030465438

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