Contesting the Far Right a psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory approach
Introduction -- Castration anxiety and capitalism -- Psychoanalytic concepts -- Sleeping and dreaming while awake : Adorno revisited -- From melancholia to mania : the rise of Trump -- The culture industry of jokes : the recruitment tactics of the Alt-Right -- Austria's Far-Right : a failed wor...
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Columbia University Press
2024
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| Schriftenreihe: | New directions in critical theory
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- Castration anxiety and capitalism -- Psychoanalytic concepts -- Sleeping and dreaming while awake : Adorno revisited -- From melancholia to mania : the rise of Trump -- The culture industry of jokes : the recruitment tactics of the Alt-Right -- Austria's Far-Right : a failed working-through of the past -- Gratifications of terror : identitarian movement Austria -- Concluding remarks : suggestions for undermining the Far Right today "Millions of people in the United States and Europe have responded to the negative effects of neoliberal capitalism--isolation, alienation, economic insecurity--by turning to extreme right movements. Claudia Leeb argues that early Frankfurt School (including Adorno, Margarete and Alexander Mitscherlich, Fromm, Leo Loewenthal, and Norbert Guterman) and feminist (such as Wendy Brown, Nancy Fraser, and Robyn Marasco) theorists can provide analytical tools to help explain the complex interaction of economic and psychological factors involved in this large-scale social and political shift. The extreme right has been able to take advantage of what Albena Azmanova calls "economic precarity," which affects all labor classes, by emphasizing and exploiting feelings of failure and anxiety resulting from inabilities to achieve high standards of economic success and heteronormative masculinity. By removing inhibitions against aggression toward "inferior" groups, women and minorities, who are seen as the cause of economic and sexual distress, it fosters a form of collective belonging that restores a positive sense of self among group followers. Leeb compares cases such as the appeal of the Alt-Right to American millennials and the growing electoral success of the Freedom Party in Austria, along with illustrative literary examples (such as Ishiguro and Hochschild), to demonstrate how her analysis can be applied broadly and historically, and she suggests approaches to counter the ability of the extreme right to recruit and retain new followers"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | x, 326 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780231213073 978-0-231-21307-3 9780231213066 978-0-231-21306-6 |