Chiasma: A Site For Thought

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Chiasma: A Site For Thought is an International Journal of Theory and Philosophy

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Introducing Cuvântul Liber (The Free Word)

Not long after the so-called “statist” model of national identity was perceived to be waning with increasing globalization of power, the reactionary rise of authoritarian populist movements proliferated, promoting provincial and xenophobic outlooks....

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Thinking Heidegger's Unthought

This essay confronts the on-going debate surrounding the “Heidegger affair” in two ways. First, given what we have learned from the publication of the Black Notebooks, the question of whether Heidegger’s thinking is ‘contaminated’ or inseparable from...

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The Eclipse of Natural Right in Walter Benjamin’s Natural History of Baroque Sovereignty

In Origin of the German Trauerspiel, Benjamin offers a “natural history” of Baroque sovereignty. This paper examines how the Baroque allegory of nature, implied in the natural history approach, informs Benjamin’s legal critique and analysis of Fascis...

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Modern Abstract Sacrifice in Robespierre’s Terror and Hitler’s Holocaust

In “Modern Abstract Sacrifice in Robespierre’s Terror and Hitler’s Holocaust,” I use Hegel’s analysis of Robespierre’s Terror in the Phenomenology and Adorno and Horkheimer’s analysis of the Nazi Holocaust in the Dialectic of Enlightenment to identif...

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Identity and Its Discontents

One of the primary forms of contemporary fascism is identitarianism, a far-right political and social movement that is oriented around the protection of European identities from the supposed threat of “replacement” by migrants through the machination...

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Introduction

This introduction serves to provide an all too brief overview of the history of fascism alongside different ways it has been understood and defined. My aim is to note the lack of consensus surrounding a definition, indicating instead that we ought to...