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Unutrašnji totalitarizam: od vanjske prisile do imperativa zadovoljstva
Inner Totalitarianism: From Exterior Coercion to Satisfaction Imperative

Author(s): Josip Ivanović
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: totalitarianism; freedom; normative consensus; individual; subject; Jürgen Habermas; Sheldon Wolin

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the phenomenon called ‘inner totalitarianism’ which presents the tendency of the contemporary social-economic system that enslaves the life-world and ultimately the individual subjectivity. While in certain aspects inverted, in others the totalitarian system remained completely untouched, namely, an adopted form of classical totalitarianism. A generalized liberal-democratic ideology of the system is being examined from the perspective of its self-declared values. Finally, the author tries to draw a basic draft of the inner totalitarianism’s ideology and its main function, which are considered as the true basis of the social world’s realm.

  • Issue Year: 32/2012
  • Issue No: 03-04
  • Page Range: 560-586
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Croatian