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Vladimir Safatle: Innere Bedrohung – Cover
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Vladimir Safatle

Innere Bedrohung

Psychoanalyse der neuen Faschismen · With a preface by Patrice Maniglier

The philosopher and psychoanalyst Vladimir Safatle has no patience for the comforting notion that fascism is other people's business. In his new book, written under the impact of the years in which the far right governed Brazil, he shows how fascism changes a society: by reordering its affects and making indifference and desensitisation the new normal.

256 pages · Softcover · 22,00 € · About the book →

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»Ich habe begriffen, dass für das Unbewusste zu streiten auch heißt, für die Anliegen der Minderheiten zu streiten, und umgekehrt.«

Silvia Lippi, Sigmund Freud

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Forthcoming

Six foundational texts of aesthetics open the series tentare material in April 2027: Lessing, Schiller, Kleist, Diderot, Rousseau and Brecht, newly edited and annotated. Alongside them, Silvia Lippi and Patrice Maniglier's Schwestern.

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About the press

tentare is a publishing house for philosophy, art and politics, founded in 2024. Our books are read wherever theory and practice meet: in artistic and literary production, in educational and therapeutic settings, in social and political movements, at universities and art academies. The programme centres on current theoretical work from France, Italy and Brazil, published in German translation.

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tentare (Latin): to try, to attempt, to put to the test, to probe by touching, to handle, to feel (hence the word tentacle), to get to know, to find out, to examine, to lead into temptation, to seduce, to entice, to provoke, to spur on …

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We publish only a few books a year, and we choose them ourselves – above all discoveries from Italy, France and Latin America that have so far escaped German-speaking readers. Most of our titles we translate ourselves.

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