Eduardo Nicol: Totalitarianism and the Regime of Force Majeure in Life. The World against the Total Violence

Abstract

This article takes a critical look at the situation of violence in the Twentieth and Twenty-first century, provides, from the philosophy of exile in the work of Eduardo Nicol, a concept of totalitarianism that operates thematically in the work of the philosopher in a text published in 1942 (almost unknown until now) and throughout his work. The purpose of this written contribution is to demonstrate the diagnosis of nicoliana work over a period and understanding of an age that directly affects our present, in which totalitarianism is not restricted to a sphere of politics or an archeology political theories of the last century; rather, the trajectory of political totalitarianism is the outline of a way of being human, the total and totalizing, one without truth being, that neither gives nor asks for reasons, an idea man folded into indifference, a new barbarism enlightened in wich predominant social massification, ideology, movement and spectacular propaganda.