How to Critique Authoritarian Populism

Methodologies of the Frankfurt School
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44473-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 180, 502 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 989 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School offers a comprehensive introduction to the techniques used by the early Frankfurt School to study and combat authoritarianism and authoritarian populism. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the writings of the early Frankfurt School, at the same time as authoritarian populist movements are resurging in Europe and the Americas. This volume shows why and how Frankfurt School methodologies can and should be used to address the rise of authoritarianism today. Critical theory scholars are assembled from a variety of disciplines to discuss Frankfurt School approaches to dialectical philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, human subjects research, discourse analysis and media studies.

Contributors include: Robert J. Antonio, Stefanie Baumann, Christopher Craig Brittain, Dustin J. Byrd, Mariana Caldas Pinto Ferreira, Panayota Gounari, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Imaculada Kangussu, Douglas Kellner, Dan Krier, Lauren Langman, Claudia Leeb, Gregory Joseph Menillo, Jeremiah Morelock, Felipe Ziotti Narita, Michael R. Ott, Charles Reitz, Avery Schatz, Rudolf J. Siebert, William M. Sipling, David Norman Smith, Daniel Sullivan, and AK Thompson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Morelock, Jeremiah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremiah Morelock, Ph.D. (2019), Boston College, is an Instructor of Sociology at that university. 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).