Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea by Toscano, Alberto

Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786630544)

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Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea by Toscano, Alberto

Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea

$19.95
Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea by Toscano, Alberto

Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea

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Format: Paperback
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A genealogy of fanaticism--unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations

It is commonplace to hear fanaticism described as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs, an assertion that helps to demonize convictions outside political orthodoxy. Alberto Toscano's compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted convention by exploring the critical role fanaticism played in the formation of modern politics and the liberal state. Showing how fanaticism results from a failure to formulate an adequate emancipatory politics, this illuminating history sheds new light on an idea that continues to dominate debates about faith and secularism.

This expanded edition includes new material that revisits the idea of fanaticism as it operates at the limits of the liberal political imaginary, highlighting its relation to fraternal violence, political purity and the refusal of compromise, as well as its centrality to times of social crisis and international conflict.

Author: Alberto Toscano
ISBN-10: 1786630540
ISBN-13: 9781786630544
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2017
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d
By Alberto Toscano
By Alberto Toscano
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Alberto Toscano is Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Term Research Associate Professor at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2010; 2017, 2nd ed.), Cartographies of the Absolute (with Jeff Kinkle, Zero Books, 2015), Una visi compleja. Hac僘 una est騁ica de la econom僘 (Meier Ramirez, 2021), La abstracci real. Filosofia, est騁ica y capital (Palinodia, 2021), and the co-editor of the 3-volume The SAGE Handbook of Marxism (with Sara Farris, Bev Skeggs and Svenja Bromberg, SAGE, 2022), and Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Abolition Geography: Essays in Liberation (with Brenna Bhandar, Verso, 2022). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and is series editor of The Italian List for Seagull Books. He is also the translator of numerous books and essays by Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Franco Fortini, Furio Jesi and others.

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