Authoritarianism in All Its Guises - Perspectives on Right, Left, and Center

Authoritarianism in All its Guises provides an interdisciplinary assessment of contemporary experiences of authoritarianism.

List of contents

List of Contributors
Introduction by Daniel Burston and Kurt Jacobsen
Chapter 1. Three-Way Fights: From the First International and the Russian Revolution to Today - Javier Sethness Castro
Chapter 2. The Superego: Our Inner Authoritarian - Don Carveth
Chapter 3. The New Moralism: From Agonism to Antagonism - Samir Gandesha
Chapter 4. Questioning the University's "Anti-Blackness" - Charles Thorpe
Chapter 5. Silencing Dissenters: Academic Authoritarianism in Response to Two Hoaxes - Neil McLaughlin and Neil Wegenschimmel
Chapter 6. Back to School: Academic Dogma Invades Public Life - Russell Jacoby
Chapter 7. The Transformation of Woke: Weighing the Mischievous Role of the Right - Lauren Langman
Chapter 8. Gender Trouble, Authoritarianism, and the Flight from Womanhood - Ilene Philipson
Chapter 9. The Challenge of Jewish Difference: Antisemitism and the Progressive Left - Cheryl Goldstein
Chapter 10. Psychoanalysis, Authoritarianism, Antisemitism and the Progressive Left - Daniel Burston
Chapter 11. From Solidarity to Identity: Group Narcissism and the Demise of Left Politics - Michael J. Thompson
Chapter 12. Center Askew: The Muddle over the Authoritarian Middle - Kurt Jacobsen

About the author

Daniel Burston is Associate Professor and former chair (retired) of Duquesne University's psychology department. A historian of the mental health disciplines, he has authored several books and numerous journal articles on the history and politics of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.
Kurt Jacobsen is a Lecturer in Social Sciences and Faculty Associate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is author or editor of a dozen books and is co-editor of the UK journal Free Associations.

Summary

Authoritarianism in All its Guises provides an interdisciplinary assessment of contemporary experiences of authoritarianism.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Jacobsen Burston
• Assisted by: Daniel Burston (Editor), Burston Daniel (Editor), Kurt Jacobsen (Editor), Jacobsen Kurt (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032486130
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248613-0
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis