How to talk to a fascist - by Marcia Tiburi

Reflections on Brazilian authoritarian daily life. Given the risks of fascism that we face every day, our challenge is to confront the fascist with what is unbearable for him: the other. The instrument? Dialogue, in the best philosophical tradition attributed to Socrates. With her rare ability to explain philosophical themes to the common reader, Marcia Tiburi achieved public and critical success as a pop philosopher. And, in times of frayed nerves and aggressive political clashes, she brings us, in How to Talk to a Fascist, a philosophical-political purpose: to think with readers about issues of political culture experienced daily, in an open way, without fall into academic jargon. The author rescues politics as a language experience, always present in common life. The main argument is how to think of a method, or a stance, to counter hate speech, its effects on society and repercussions on social media. The philosopher proposes dialogue as a form of resistance, and analyzes news and events from the political world to show, once again, that it is possible to talk about complex topics in a way that everyone understands. In the various essays that make up this work, Marcia Tiburi leads the reader in a process of reflection and discovery of democratic values. Furthermore, it reveals the contradictions, prejudices and practices that characterize authoritarian movements in full formal democracy. Dialogue with a fascist, and about fascism, forcing a relationship with a subject incapable of supporting the difference inherent in dialogue, is an act of resistance. Confronting the fascist, revealing his ignorance, leading this interlocutor to contradiction and deconstructing his certainties are attitudes that are part of Marcia Tiburi's ethical-political enterprise. Presented by Rubens Casara and preface by Jean Wyllys, the book contains unpublished essays and some already published in Cult magazine, combining the intellectual depth and sophistication present in Marcia Tiburi's work. In How to Talk to a Fascist, the thinker bets on the power of dialogue and the dissemination of knowledge as an antidote to the authoritarian tradition that has been conditioning thought and action in Brazil in recent times.