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Totalitarians of Western Philosophy

Totalitarians of Western Philosophy

By: Little Crispy
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Running through some of the most beloved texts in Western political philosophy. They are loved for their ingenuity and beauty. But they are respected and believed for their screeching authoritarianism. You might see episodes on...Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau. Hegel, Nietzsche, Zizek, Pettit, etc.

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  • The End!

    The End!
    Mar 25 2025

    Trying to summarize the vast terrain we traversed on this podcast. Final episode.
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    21 mins
  • Our Boy Slavoj: Totalitarian Fun With Žižek!

    Our Boy Slavoj: Totalitarian Fun With Žižek!
    Mar 19 2025

    A vast and wild oeuvre it is, but the non-stop flirtation with extreme authoritarianism, even "terrorism" and "war communism," is hard to miss. Plato, Hegel, Marx: so much of what we've talked about runs together here, in revival. SZ seeks to inspire whole newish or newesque totalitarian movements.

    "One of the mantras of the postmodern left is that one should finally leave behind the 'Jacobin-Leninist' paradigm of centralized and dictatorial power. Perhaps, the time has come to turn this mantra around and admit that a dose of this 'Jacobin-Leninist' paradigm is precisely what the left needs today." (Idea of Communism 1 p. 217)
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    28 mins
  • Western Political Philosophy is a Tissue of Fictions

    Western Political Philosophy is a Tissue of Fictions
    Mar 16 2025

    Summing up many of the developments seen in this podcast, we can say that Western political philosophy consists primarily of mere fictions. It's romantasy. from Plato to Rawls. It's cute! It's sweet! If you deleted the fiction, you'd have deleted political philosophy.
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    16 mins
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