To Have Done with the Philosophical Cold War
A Review of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea by Alberto Toscano
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How to uphold a politics of universalism, egalitarianism and abstraction without being tarnished by the accusation of fanaticism? In order to open the space in which the question can be asked, Alberto Toscano’s Fanaticism explores various instantiations of the trope of ‘fanaticism’ and other associated concepts (totalitarianism, enthusiasm). Challenging the reliance on simplification, decontextualisation and analogical thinking behind uses of those terms, the book shows how fanaticism as Other conversely engenders a mystified idea of the modern West as the negative of the political and theoretical interdictions associated with them.
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Badiou Alain Brassier Ray Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism 2003 Stanford Stanford University Press
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Badiou 2002.
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See, for example, Sohn-Rethel 1977, Badiou and Hallward 2003, Badiou 2010, Toscano 2008 and 2010b, Srnicek and Williams 2013, Brassier 2014.
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Hegel 1956, p. 358.
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Cf. Borges 1998, p. 176.
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Kant 1991, p. 182.
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Hegel 1956, p. 358.
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Badiou 2003, p. 99. What goes unsaid here is that, to the extent that Badiou refuses any transitivity between objective conditions and subjective affirmation, one could say that, from the French philosopher’s formalism, Toscano takes only the form – the material determination of which would come, one presumes, from a broadly-understood Marxian analysis.
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Toscano 2006.
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Noys 2010, p. x.
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Whitehead 1967, p. 3.
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Marx 2000, p. 77.
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To Have Done with the Philosophical Cold War
A Review of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea by Alberto Toscano
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How to uphold a politics of universalism, egalitarianism and abstraction without being tarnished by the accusation of fanaticism? In order to open the space in which the question can be asked, Alberto Toscano’s Fanaticism explores various instantiations of the trope of ‘fanaticism’ and other associated concepts (totalitarianism, enthusiasm). Challenging the reliance on simplification, decontextualisation and analogical thinking behind uses of those terms, the book shows how fanaticism as Other conversely engenders a mystified idea of the modern West as the negative of the political and theoretical interdictions associated with them.
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