Identity Politics and Tribalism : : The New Culture Wars.

• Superior document: Societas Series ; v.74
• Author: Sotirakopoulos, Nikos.
• Place / Publishing House: Luton, Bedfordshire : : Imprint Academic,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Societas Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 pages)

Has the world gone mad?'...this is a question that we've heard time and again during the last years. Everyone is convinced that something is wrong with politics, the culture, and our society, but what exactly is the problem and how can we overcome it?This book will guide the reader through a journey that will connect the dots on the various fronts of the culture wars. There is a thread that links together the various expressions of group and identity conflicts in today's West: from Left to Right, from Social Justice Warriors to Trumpites, from feminism to the manosphere, and from critical race theorists to white nationalists.By the end of this book, readers will understand not only the root problem poisoning our culture and society, but also how to rise above it both in our private lives and as citizens.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Publisher Information -- Acknowledgements -- Identity Politics And Tribalism -- Introduction -- The Tribalist Mind -- Wired for Tribalism? -- Tribalism As an Epistemological Choice -- Culture Wars and Identity Politics -- The Left… -- Unite and Divide -- Marx and the Proletarian Mind -- The New Left -- The New Left's Existential Uncertainty, and Tribalism -- The 21st-Century Left: Lived Tribalism… -- …and Institutionalized Tribalism -- …and the Right -- A Revolt Against Reason and the Individual -- The early 20th-Century Reactionary Right and Fascism -- Post-World War II Reactionary Thought: Identity vs. the Modern World -- The American Right from the 1940s to Buckley -- The New Right and Religion -- From Reagan to the Tea Party -- The Trump Phenomenon -- The 'Deplorables': Right-Wing Counter-Cultural Rebels -- Bannon, and the International of Nationalists -- Free Speech -- The Fight for Free Speech: The Mind vs. Force -- Grey, and Not so Grey, Areas -- Is Free Speech a Tool of the Powerful and Privileged? -- Entitled Vulnerability -- An Assault on Objectivity -- Taking Scalps in the Free Speech Wars -- The New Racial Thinking -- Progressive Racial Thinking -- White Nationalism and the Alt-Right -- The Gender Wars -- Feminism -- The Manosphere -- Bringing It All Together: The Kavanaugh Case -- Conclusion -- From Tribalism… -- …Towards Intellectual Independence -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Also Available.