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The Monstrous and the Dead - Burke, Marx, Fascism (Paperback)
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The Monstrous and the Dead - Burke, Marx, Fascism (Paperback)
Series: Political Philosophy Now
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Loot Price R334
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What is the political function of monstrosity? What is the nature
of our political relationship with the dead? Why are the undead so
threatening? In "The Monstrous and the Dead," Mark Neocleous
explores such questions as they run through three major political
traditions: conservatism, Marxism and fascism. One of the things
uniting these otherwise opposing traditions is that they share a
common interest in the dead. This is therefore a book about the
politics of remembrance, showing that how and why the dead register
in our political lives constitutes a major dividing line for the
political traditions in question: are the dead to be reconciled
with the living in a conservative fashion, resurrected for the
cause of fascism or are their hopes and struggles to be redeemed
for a communist future?
Exploring these issues reveals that, as well as leaving traces in
memories, dreams and unfulfilled wishes, the dead also generate
fears, most notably the fear that they are not really dead: they
are undead and thus monstrous. The book therefore simultaneously
considers the function of monstrosity as a rhetorical political
device: in Burke's response to the monstrous revolution, Marx's use
of the vampire and fascism's concept of the Marxist-liberal-Jewish
menace. The outcome is an original reading of key thinkers and
movements in western politics, a provocative account of the role of
political metaphor and an eclectic argument concerning the place of
the dead in historical struggles.
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