Contesting the Far Right
A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach
1st Edition
Published on 24. April 2024
336 pages
978-0-231-55970-6 (ISBN)
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Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact to produce this extreme political shift.
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Claudia Leeb is associate professor of political theory at Washington State University. Her recent books include The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence (2018) and Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism: Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject (2017).
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Castration Anxiety and Capitalism
2. Psychoanalytic Concepts
3. Sleeping and Dreaming While Awake: Adorno Revisited
4. From Melancholia to Mania: The Rise of Trump
5. The Culture Industry of Jokes: The Recruitment Tactics of the Alt-Right
6. Austria's Far Right: A Failed Working-Through of the Past
7. Gratifications of Terror: The Austrian Identitarian Movement
Concluding Remarks: Suggestions for Undermining the Far Right Today
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. Castration Anxiety and Capitalism
2. Psychoanalytic Concepts
3. Sleeping and Dreaming While Awake: Adorno Revisited
4. From Melancholia to Mania: The Rise of Trump
5. The Culture Industry of Jokes: The Recruitment Tactics of the Alt-Right
6. Austria's Far Right: A Failed Working-Through of the Past
7. Gratifications of Terror: The Austrian Identitarian Movement
Concluding Remarks: Suggestions for Undermining the Far Right Today
Notes
Bibliography
Index
