How to critique authoritarian populism : : methodologies of the Frankfurt School / / edited by Jeremiah Morelock.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 180
• TeilnehmendeR: Morelock, Jeremiah,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2021]; 2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 180.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLE -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: Frankfurt School Methodologies -- Jeremiah Morelock and Daniel Sullivan -- PART I: 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 II: 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 III: 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 and Charles Reitz -- 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 IV: 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.