The personality of power : a theory of fascism for anti-fascist life / Brian Massumi.
| Author/creator | Massumi, Brian author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Thought in the act Thought in the act. ^A1446112 |
| Contents | Trumping the personality of power -- Multiple persons in joint possession -- The full body and I -- Error incarnate -- The regime of reaction -- Distinctions of distinction : for a logic of mutual inclusion. |
| Abstract | "In an effort to rethink the political logics of fascism, The Personality of Power explores the specific form of fascism exemplified by Donald Trump. Brian Massumi demonstrates that fascism is not a specific substance-form typically associated with European regimes of the 1930s but rather is a relational form of collective embodiment. Massumi takes Trump's persona as a jumping-off point to rethink how the reactionary tendencies fostering fascism germinate and propagate today. The Personality of Power is a political treatise on the cultural conditions of fascism, coupled with a philosophical inquiry into becoming reactionary as a collective process. The inquiry calls the very concept of the person into question, asking what collective personhood means concretely. Massumi not only challenges how we think about fascism, but he also pushes for a rethinking of process philosophy more generally"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Massumi, Brian. Personality of power. Durham : Duke University Press, 2025 9781478060543 |
| LCCN | 2024039429 |
| ISBN | 9781478031598 |
| ISBN | 147803159X paperback |
| ISBN | 9781478028352 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1478028351 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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