The White West
Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity
ed. by Kader Attia, Anselm Franke and Ana Teixeira Pinto ; with contr. by Larne Abse Gogarty, Norman Ajari, Ramon Amaro …[et al.]

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Auteur(s)

Larne Abse Gogarty, Norman Ajari, Ramon Amaro, Sladja Blazan, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Donna V. Jones, Nitzan Lebovic, Olivier Marboeuf, A. Dirk Moses, Rijin Sahakian, Nikhil Pal Singh, Kerstin Stakemeier, Felix Stalder

Editor(s)

Kader Attia, Anselm Franke and Ana Teixeira Pinto

Uitgever

Berlin : Sternberg, 2024

Omvang

248 p., geïllustreerd, 21 cm.

ISBN

9783956795336

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Ever since neofascist movements began to surge across the globe, liberal commentators have tried to put a name to what they are defending from these illiberal ideologies. The consensus is reason or rationality—after the Second World War, mainstream scholarship has supported the view that adherence to fascism is a thing of unreason. This distinction between reason and unreason, a tenet of Enlightenment thought, sustains the universal appeal of liberal democracy but leaves unexamined the paradoxes that haunt modernity, particularly its colonial foundation, thus obscuring the continuities between fascism and imperial policies. The White West contends that, without confronting the structuring force of race in the production and reproduction of global wealth disparities, fighting for reason only leads to flawed utopias in which a critique or disruption of capitalism is easily inflected in the direction of neofascism. This collection of writings is an attempt to engage the overlaps between philosophical predicates and colonial legacies, as well as the undertheorized continuities between fascism and settler colonialism.

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Trefwoorden

colonisation , activism , fascism

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 30 - 1: Slavernij en Kolonialisme ; Facing up to the Past

Opmerkingen

Includes notes, biographies