Publisher's Synopsis
Fifty years after the publication of The Authoritarian Personality, the Frankfurt School account of fascism remains as controversial as ever. Passions and Convictions in Matters Political attempts to preserve the discoveries of the Frankfurt School while integrating them into a new psychoanalytic model of politics, which draws equally on Kleinian thought. Departing from a revised account of authoritarianism, the new model defines two more political positions: reconciled and alienated liberalism. Academics and scholars of political science and psychology will find Passions and Convictions in Matters Political an important resource.
