Critical theory and the humanities in the age of the alt-right / Christine M. Battista, Melissa R. Sande, editors.

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text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

3030187527
9783030187521

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

301.01 23

LOC classification:

HM480 .C74 2019
HM585 .C75 2019

Contents:

1. Introduction: The State of the Humanities and the Age of the Alt-Right -- 2. "For Every Two Steps Forward, it Often Feels like we Take One Step Back": Foucauldian Historiography and the Current Political Moment -- 3. Cultural Marxism and the Cathedral: Two Alt-Right Perspectives on Critical Theory -- 4. The Right to Anger: Combative Publics -- 5. Herrenvolk Democracy: The Rise of the Alt-Right in Trump's America -- 6. From NeoReactionary Theory to the Alt-Right -- 7. Skepticism, Relativism, and Identity: The Origins of (Pseudo-)Conservatism -- 8. The Materialist Conception of Fiction -- 9. Liberation Through Oppression: Deleuze's Minor Literature and Deterritorialized Nationalisms in James Joyce's Ulysses -- 10. Death by a Thousand Hyperlinks: The Commodification of Communication and Mediated Ideologies -- 11. Critical Race Theory, Transborder Theory, and Code Switching in the Trump Years -- 12. Conclusion: Mining the Past for Usable Futures: The Global Rise of the Alt-Right and the Frankfurt School.

Summary: "This edited collection uses critical theory in order to understand the rise of the Alt-Right and the election of Donald Trump—and, in doing so, to assert the necessity and value of various disciplines within the humanities. While neoliberal mainstream culture has expressed shock at the seemingly expeditious rise of the Alt-Right movement and the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election, a rich tradition of theory may not only explain the occurrence of this “phenomenon,” but may also chart an alternative understanding of the movement, revealing the persistence of right-wing populism throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--Publisher's website.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This edited collection uses critical theory in order to understand the rise of the Alt-Right and the election of Donald Trump—and, in doing so, to assert the necessity and value of various disciplines within the humanities. While neoliberal mainstream culture has expressed shock at the seemingly expeditious rise of the Alt-Right movement and the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election, a rich tradition of theory may not only explain the occurrence of this “phenomenon,” but may also chart an alternative understanding of the movement, revealing the persistence of right-wing populism throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--Publisher's website.

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