{"product_id":"fanaticism-isbn-9781786630544","title":"Fanaticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eA genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is commonplace to hear fanaticism described as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs, an assertion that helps to demonize convictions outside political orthodoxy.  Alberto Toscano’s compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted convention by exploring the critical role fanaticism played in the formation of modern politics and the liberal state. Showing how fanaticism results from a failure to formulate an adequate emancipatory politics, this illuminating history sheds new light on an idea that continues to dominate debates about faith and secularism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This expanded edition includes new material that revisits the idea of fanaticism as it operates at the limits of the liberal political imaginary, highlighting its relation to fraternal violence, political purity and the refusal of compromise, as well as its centrality to times of social crisis and international conflict.“Succinct yet expansively allusive in scope, dense yet highly readable, Fanaticism is a multi-levelled investigation into the role that the idea of the fanatic has played in political discourse.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Mark Fisher, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A tour de force in every sense—Toscano wipes the smug smiles off the self-righteous faces of the New Philosophers.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Mike Davis, author of \u003ci\u003ePlanet of Slums\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Gets the synapses firing … The book has brio, it is bolstered by wide-ranging scholarship and it will make you re-examine one of the most dangerous words in the political lexicon.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eCatholic Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlberto Toscano\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Term Research Associate Professor at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea\u003c\/i\u003e (Verso, 2010; 2017, 2nd ed.), \u003ci\u003eCartographies of the Absolute\u003c\/i\u003e (with Jeff Kinkle, Zero Books, 2015), \u003ci\u003eUna visión compleja. Hacía una estética de la economía\u003c\/i\u003e (Meier Ramirez, 2021), \u003ci\u003eLa abstracción real. Filosofia, estética y capital\u003c\/i\u003e (Palinodia, 2021), and the co-editor of the 3-volume \u003ci\u003eThe SAGE Handbook of Marxism\u003c\/i\u003e (with Sara Farris, Bev Skeggs and Svenja Bromberg, SAGE, 2022), and Ruth Wilson Gilmore's \u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography: Essays in Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e (with Brenna Bhandar, Verso, 2022). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal \u003ci\u003eHistorical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory\u003c\/i\u003e and is series editor of The Italian List for Seagull Books. He is also the translator of numerous books and essays by Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Franco Fortini, Furio Jesi and others.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302118281445,"sku":"NP9781786630544","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781786630544.jpg?v=1767726707","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fanaticism-isbn-9781786630544","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}