Describing the superior stage of a totalitarian culture between materialism and human subjectivity
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-1507.v33i1p%25pKeywords:
Totalitarian culture, Dennis de Oliveira, Capitalist realism, Historical and dialectical materialism, Subjectivity of human thoughtAbstract
This book review of Totalitarian Culture: Human Sociability in Question, by Dennis de Oliveira, describes how the author reaches the highest point of his intellectual work between his expressions of academia and activism, questioning how a book of questions—based on the Marxist historical materialism impounded by cases of a material reality that is unpalatable and inexplicable to contemporary humans – can pave the way for a new way of thinking (through the margins of the system), a solution to capitalist realism and its higher cultural expression, defined by the author as totalitarian culture.
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