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Critical Theory and the Authoritarian Personality

Critical Theory and the Authoritarian Personality

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Publisher's Synopsis

The worldwide resurgence of authoritarianism has sparked renewed interest in the Frankfurt School theory of the authoritarian personality, not as a topic of academic debate but as an urgent political factor. Critical Theory and the Authoritarian Personality brings Theodor Adorno's critique up-to-date in light of new forms of authoritarian politics, recent kinds of authoritarian propaganda and current findings about authoritarian personalities.

Drawing on the work of Slavoj Zizek and the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, this is the first sustained application of psychoanalytic theory to the problem of the authoritarian personality since the classical work of the Frankfurt School. It explores a pressing problem-the resurgence of the radical Right-and proposes new solutions, grounded in the idea of an affective approach to authoritarian politics as something based on transgressive fantasies and political anxieties. Throughout, the book illustrates its theoretical claims with reference to new kinds of authoritarian literature, which today forms an important part of right-wing propaganda.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781399519458
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 320.53
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 254
Weight: -1g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm