Under the Cover of Chaos - Trump and the Battle for the American Right

Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his incompetence? Are his populism, illiberalism and nationalism just cynical appeals to existing feelings of abandonment, resentment and rage?
Lawrence Grossberg shows that the truth is bigger and more frightening. Locating Trumpism in the long struggle among traditional conservatism, the new right and the reactionary right, he suggests that the chaos is far more significant and strategic ... and dangerous. Taking the arguments of the reactionary right seriously, he projects a possible, nightmarish future: a cultural nationalism governed by a popular corporatocracy.
He lays bare how contemporary political struggles are being shaped by a changing national landscape of moods and feelings, marked by a growing absolutism of judgement and belief, and new forms of anxiety, alienation and narcissism.

A propos de l'auteur

Lawrence Grossberg has been writing about popular culture, youth culture and political culture in post-WW2 United States, for over four decades. He is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor in Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina. He is internationally recognised as a leading figure in Cultural Studies, and his work has been translated into eighteen languages. He is the author of Under the Cover of Chaos (Pluto, 2017), We All Want to Change the World (2015), Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (Duke, 2010) and Caught in the Crossfire (Routledge, 2005) amongst many other works.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lawrence Grossberg
• Edition: Wiley
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 20.01.2018
• EAN: 9780745337920
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3792-0
• Pages: 192
• Poids: 321 g
• Illustrations: 2 b&w tables, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Nationalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political leaders & leadership, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Political leaders and leadership, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements