Neo-Nazi Postmodern - Right Wing Terror Tactics, Intellectual New Right, Destabilization

From the violent skinhead protests of the early 1990s to the National Socialist Underground murder spree of the 2000s and the KSK ( Kommando Spezialkrafte ) scandal of 2020, this book traces Germany''s long struggle to suppress a resurgent and ever more terroristic far-right scene. Esther Elizabeth Adaire analyses the electoral success of the AfD ( Alternative fur Deutschland ) party in 2017, the growing presence of PEGIDA on German streets, and the anti-COVID lockdown protests led by conspiracy theorist groups such as Querdenken which have taken aback liberal onlookers for whom Germany''s robust culture of Holocaust consciousness is supposed to provide a panacea against neo-Nazism. Adaire examines how, since unification, the intellectual Neue Rechte has increasingly destabilized the foundations of historical memory and lesson-learning in Germany, often doing so in the pages of mainstream conservative publications. Neo-Nazi Postmodern convincingly contends that far-right intellectuals - joined by notable left-wing apostates who brought with them an anti-establishment critique borrowed from the language of postmodernism - have since the early 1990s excused and justified an increasingly violent far-right youth scene, even becoming leaders of this scene themselves. The book therefore traces the development of today''s German far-right throughout several stages, notable scandals, and the ongoing destabilization of memory and truth from unification onwards, showing how previously disparate groups such as neo-Nazis, Neue Rechte intellectuals, and political fringe parties merged over time. This far-right scene, Adaire adeptly demonstrates, has come to embody what the historian Walter Laqueur once dubbed ''Postmodern Terrorism'': a mixture of cell-based terror structures, reliance on Internet technologies for organizational purposes, and the sowing of epistemic chaos via informational warfare.>

Product details

• Authors: Esther Elizabeth Adaire
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2024
• EAN: 9781350417120
• ISBN: 978-1-350-41712-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Political Ideologies, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 21st Century, Postmodernism, Holidays & seasonal interest, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, The Holocaust, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Political ideologies and movements, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Holocaust Memorial or Remembrance Days, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust