Phainomena (Dec 2023)

O totalitariumu

  • Dean Komel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.32022/PHI32.2023.126-127.11
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32, no. 126-127
pp. 239 – 258

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On Totalitarium - Philosophical, historiographical, sociological, political, cultural, and other studies of totalitarianism in the 20th century focus on its “social appearance,” but predominantly without the insight that this “social appearance” can by itself be totalizing with regard to the horizon of the world as a whole of beings, although they presuppose it as their “objective assumption.” Totalitarity as totalitarium is empowered by the functional machination of the worldhood of the world dictated by the totalization of social subjectivity. Likewise, the system of production, defined by techno-scientific progress and capitalized globally, needs to be understood in the context of the empowerment of social subjectivity, which is functionally “objectified” into totalitarium. The totalitarium is established by various blocks and zones of functioning, however not in historical consecutiveness, but rather as a conjuncture of regulations, disposals, subordinations, and re-orderings, which take power over everywhere.

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