Towards a postmodern totalitarianism? Cover Image

Către un totalitarism postmodern?
Towards a postmodern totalitarianism?

Author(s): Alexandru Mamina
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: totalitarianism; minorities; postmodernity;majority’s rule;

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the current tendency towards a new kind of totalitarianism accordingly with the main data of the postmodern culture, which denies the possibility of a general good, leaning instead on the peculiar identities. It is about a less violent totalitarianism then the old kind from the 20th century, preferring not to repress but to inhibit in a moral and also legal way thewill of the majority by using the minorities issue. Thus, in the behalf of certain ethnical, racial and sexual groups, the largest part of population is forced to constrain itself as a decisive factor in the public space, what means to empty the democracy of its positive content: the majority’s rule.

  • Issue Year: IX/2021
  • Issue No: 2 (32)
  • Page Range: 253-258
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian