ISBN:
978-1-00342514-4
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 177 Seiten).
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DDC:
303.4840973
Keywords:
Society & culture - general
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Social theory
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Political science & theory
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Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies
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Political structures - democracy
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Fascism & Nazism
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Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies
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Marxism & Communism
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Nationalism
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Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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anarchism;socialism;alt-right;fascism;antisemitism;sociology;identity;left theory;politics;postmodernism
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Gesellschaftstheorie
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Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
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Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
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Populärkultur
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Soziologie Allgemein
Abstract:
The alt-right movement in the US has actively been endorsing the use of left theory to achieve its endsand with varying degrees of success. Tracing occasions where figures on the alt-right reference left theory, this volume asks if the alt-rights reference of left theory is just bad reading, or are there troubling ways that certain types of left theory encourage such interpretations? What if the connections between left theory and the alt-right lie in the shared disdain for certain types of institutions, structures of power and the status quo? Are there lessons to be learned in what can often appear as an overlapping desire to deconstruct concepts like truth, justice, freedom and democracy? Drawing on the longer history of right-wing readings of left theory, this volume seeks to unpack these recent developments and consider their impact on the future of theory.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction; Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Sophia A. McClennen; 1 Steal this Theory: How the Alt-Right Accomplished the Intellectual Crime of the Century by Stealing Theory from the Left; Jeffrey R. Di Leo; 2 Whats in a Face? Theory of the Mask ; Robin Goodman; 3 Inertia Creeps: Critique and the Poetics of Complicity; Peter Hitchcock; 4 Unbridging Art and Life in the Alt-Right Avant-Garde; Héctor Hoyos; 5 Torture Yoo; Jacques Lezra; 6 The Three Stooges: How David Horowitz, Stanley Fish and Cary Nelson Turned Academic Freedom into Right-Wing Slapstick ; Sophia A. McClennen; 7 Rocket Theory ; Rita Raley and Russell Samolsky; 8 The Zionists Gambit: Israel Politics, the “Antisemitism” Ruse, and the Rightist Weaponization of Identity; Benjamin Schreier; 9 The 3-D Printed Gun and the Logic of Simulation; Geoff Schullenberger; 10 The Online House of Mirrors: Left Theory, Alt-Right Tactics, and Anticoalitional Digital “Communities” ; Gina Stinnett; 11 The Public Use of Ressentiment; Zahi Zalloua; Notes on Contributors; Index
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