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This landmark volume appraises the early Frankfurt School's contribution to our understanding of authoritarian populism, drawing lessons for today.
Sommario
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Frankfurt School Methodologies
Jeremiah Morelock and Daniel Sullivan
PART 1
Dialectics
1 When History Fails Us: Immanent Critique of Capitalism to the New Right and Beyond
Robert J. Antonio
2 A Dialectical Constellation of Authoritarian Populism in the United States and Brazil
Jeremiah Morelock and Felipe Ziotti Narita
3 Capital Fetishism and the Authoritarian Personality: Critical Theory in the Weimar Years
David Norman Smith
4 Mythology, Enlightenment, and Dialectic: Determinate Negation
Rudolf J. Siebert, Michael R. Ott, and Dustin J. Byrd
PART 2
Psychoanalysis
5 The Dialectic of Unreason: Authoritarianism and the Irrational
Lauren Langman and Avery Schatz
6 Adorno and Freud Meet Kazuo Ishiguro: The Rise of the Far- Right from a Psychoanalytic Critical Theory Perspective
Claudia Leeb
7 Marcuse and the Symbolic Roles of the Father: Someone to Watch over Me
Imaculada Kangussu
8 "Variation within a Single Paradigm": The Latent Authoritarian Dynamics of the Culture Industry
Gregory Joseph Menillo
9 What Would Jesus Do? Christianity as Wish Image and Historical Bloc
AK Thompson
PART 3
Human Subjects
10 Mobilization of Bias Today: The Renewed Use of Established Techniques; A Reconsideration of Two Studies on Prejudice from the Institute for Social Research
Peter-Erwin Jansen
11 From ‘False’ to ‘Reified’ Consciousness: Tracing the isr’s Critical Research on Authoritarianism
Daniel Sullivan
12 Franz Neumann’s Behemoth and Trumpism: Comprehending the Beast of Bad Government
Dan Krier
13 Donald Trump and the Stigmata of Democracy: Adorno and the Consolidation of a Religious Racket
Christopher Craig Brittain
PART 4
Media Discourse
14 Siegfried Kracauer and the Interpretation of Films
Jeremiah Morelock
15 How to Mediate Reality: Thinking Documentary Film with Adorno and Horkheimer
Stefanie Baumann
16 One-dimensional Social Media: The Discourse of Authoritarianism and the Authoritarianism of Discourse
Panayota Gounari
17 Applying and Extrapolating Prophets of Deceit: Heuristics of ‘Agitator’ Identification through Löwenthal and Guterman’s Analysis
William M. Sipling
18 Dialectical Images and Contemporary Times: Thinking Critically about Authoritarian Populism
Mariana Caldas Pinto Ferreira
Afterword
Douglas Kellner
Index
Info autore
Jeremiah Morelock, is an Instructor of Sociology at Boston College. He has published books and articles on critical theory, media discourse, authoritarianism, and populism, including the edited volume Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (UWP, 2018).
Riassunto
This landmark volume appraises the early Frankfurt School's contribution to our understanding of authoritarian populism, drawing lessons for today.
