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This book is the first systematic, multi-country exploration of far-right newspeak. The contributors analyze the ways in which contemporary far-right politicians, intellectuals, and pundits use and abuse traditional liberal concepts and ideas to justify positions that threaten democratic institutions and liberal principles.
Sommario
Part I Introduction 1. Far-Right Newspeak and the Fragility of Liberal Democracy Part II The Language of Liberalism 2. Masters of Contemporary Newspeak: Tucker Carlson, Marine Le Pen, and Jordan Peterson 3. “We are looking for a new feminism”: Marine Le Pen’s Reappropriation of the Liberal Language of Women’s Rights and Gender Equality 4. Far-Right Politics in the Czech Republic: Tomio Okamura’s Liberal Language and Populist Playbook Part III Far-Right Newspeak in Practice 5. The Transition From Liberal to Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary: the Language of Rights and Equality 6. When Legal Language Meets Apocalypse Anxiety: Democracy, Constitutional Scholars, and the Rise of the German Far Right after 2015 7. From Practical Critics to Hateful Malcontents: The Rise and Fall of the Online “Manosphere” Part IV The Ambiguities of a Concept 8. Forced to be Free? America’s “Post-liberals” on Freedom and Liberty 9. Shine a Light or Burn it Down? Conspiracism and Liberal Ideas Part V Beyond Far-Right Newspeak 10. Against the Global Prison-Society: The Far Right’s Language of the Opposition to the Great Reset 11. Hard Men, Hard Money, Hardening Right: Bitcoin, Peter Thiel, and Schmittian States of Exception Part VI Conclusion 12. Liberalism’s Vulnerabilities and Two Paths for the Future
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A. James McAdams is the William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
Samuel Piccolo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minnesota, USA.
Riassunto
This book is the first systematic, multi-country exploration of far-right newspeak. The contributors analyze the ways in which contemporary far-right politicians, intellectuals, and pundits use and abuse traditional liberal concepts and ideas to justify positions that threaten democratic institutions and liberal principles.
