Inaug.-Diss.--Berlin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Ce travail est un prolongement des pensées de Hannah Arendt, de Vaclav Havel, de Deleuze-Guattari et d’autres chercheurs sur le totalitarisme dans l’analyse de la politique vietnamienne. Il ne prétend pas établir une définition personnelle et nouvelle du totalitarisme ; mais étayé de résultats de recherches d’autres théoriciens, analysés à partir des expériences personnelles, il constitue les éléments de base pour une réflexion sur une réalité concrète : l’auto-totalitarisme, une forme de régime politique qui succède au totalitarisme communiste mondial. Il s’agit ici d’un effort pour concevoir une nouvelle étape du communisme, représentée par le Viet Nam, pouvant être qualifiée d’auto-totalitarisme. La thèse a l’objectif de construire un modèle interprétatif du régime auto-totalitaire dans son ensemble. Le but principal n’est donc pas de démontrer que le communisme vietnamien est un régime totalitaire, mais d’éclairer le passage du totalitarisme à l’auto-totalitarisme au Viet Nam, même si cet éclairage demande un examen de l’histoire totalitaire du régime. L’effort est concentré sur la compréhension de formes et d’enjeux politiques actuels, néanmoins l’appréhension du présent est impossible sans intelligence du passé.En langage deleuzo-guattarien du rhizome, on peut dire que le régime politique vietnamien est un devenir ou une déterritorialisation. Un devenir-capitalisme qui n’est bien évidemment pas un capitalisme. Une déterritorialisation du communisme au sens où le régime se déterritorialise du communisme mais reste lié à lui dans les principes fondamentaux du pouvoir. Le régime auto-totalitaire se déterritorialise du totalitarisme et en même temps reste bien ancré en lui / This work is an extension of the thoughts of Hannah Arendt, Vaclav Havel, Deleuze-Guattari and other researchers on totalitarianism in the analysis of Vietnamese politics. It does not pretend to establish a personal and new definition of totalitarianism; but supported by research results of other theorists, analyzed from personal experiences, it constitutes the basic elements for a reflection on a concrete reality: auto-totalitarianism, a form of political regime that succeeds global communist totalitarianism.This is an effort to conceive of a new stage of communism, represented by Viet Nam, which can be described as auto-totalitarianism. The thesis aims to construct an interpretative model of the auto-totalitarian regime as a whole. The main purpose, therefore, is not to demonstrate that Vietnamese Communism is a totalitarian regime, but to illuminate the transition from totalitarianism to auto-totalitarianism in Viet Nam, even though this illumination requires an examination of the totalitarian history of the regime. The effort is focused on understanding current political forms and issues, yet apprehension of the present is impossible without intelligence of the past.In Deleuze and Guattari's language of rhizome, one can say that the Vietnamese political regime is a becoming or a deterritorialization. A becoming-capitalism obviously is not a capitalism. A deterritorialization of communism is in the sense that the regime is deterritorialized from communism but remains linked to it in the fundamental principles of power. The auto-totalitarian regime is deterritorializing itself from totalitarianism and at the same time remains firmly anchored in it

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

In the following pages an attempt will be made to assess the impact of totalitarianism upon two sensitive observers, George Orwell and Arthur Koestler, and to reconcile the results of this assessment with current political theory. The wisdom of selecting two such writers, whose better-known works take the form of popular fiction, to provide the focus for an M.A. thesis in political science may be questioned. Their names are, however, encountered fairly often in the serious literature devoted to politics. At the same time their works of fiction, rather than the more learned books and periodicals, frequently provide the vehicle by which ideas about totalitarian systems filter through to the young or to the "man in the street". [...]

Thesis (B.A.Hons. 1978) from the Department of History, University of Adelaide.

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