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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.

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Author:   Jeremiah Morelock
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   180
Weight:   0.989kg
ISBN:  

9789004444737

ISBN 10:   9004444734
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   18 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

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

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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).

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