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Critical theory and demagogic populism /
Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox 'populism studies'. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological analyses of US demagogues by member...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Critical theory and contemporary society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and table
- Acknowledgements
- Part I: Critically theorizingdemagogic populism
- Introduction: from orthodox 'populism studies' to critical theory
- (a) An enduring orthodox dilemma: contesting 'populism' and 'radical right'
- (b) The Radical Right project: enter the demagogue
- (c) Towards modern demagogy and demagogic populism: plan of the book
- The Institute's analysis of 'modern demagogy'
- (a) From 'authoritarian(ism)' to 'modern demagogy'
- (b) Demagogic devices, their social psychology, and populism
- (C) Psychotechnics: the modern demagogue as cultural producer
- Expanding the reach of the Institute's analysis
- (a) The problem of 'modern' populism and demagogy
- (b) From 'Weberian Marxism' to ideal-typification
- (c) The state capitalism thesis as 'negative' ideal-type
- (d) Ideal-type and physiognomy
- (e) Towards a critical-theoretical comparativist typology
- Gramscian analyses of fascism and populism: Poulantzas, Laclau, Hall
- (a) Gramsci's legacy: a brief sketch
- (b) Laclau and Poulantzas on fascism and populism
- (c) Laclau's formalist reading of Worsley
- (D) Hall's 'authoritarian populism' and other challenges to Laclauian hyperformalism
- Towards a synthesis of critical perspectives
- (a) Adorno contra Laclau on Freud's Group Psychology
- (b) A Poulantzian mediation
- (c) Towards a social-formalist synthesis
- Part II: Populist contradictions of the culture industry
- Cultural populisms and culture industry
- (a) From Volk to culture industry
- (b) 'Mass culture' and the attribution of 'cultural elitism' to the culture industry thesis
- (c) Cultural populism: deepening the concept
- (d) From cultural populism to 'popular arts'
- (E) Popular arts and 'contestation'
- Counter-demagogic popular art: towards a selective tradition
- (a) Below the Surface
- (b) A Face in the Crowd: the paradigmatic case
- (c) Left-demagogy and counter-demagogic popular art
- (d) Successful liberal exposure: Murrow's 'slaying' of the McCarthyist dragon and its aesthetic legacy
- Excursus: an outline of Trumpian psychotechnics
- Structural transformations of demagogic populism
- (a) Towards a conclusion: mediated physiognomics and demagogic populism
- (b) A disintegrating public sphere?
- (C) Structural transformation of 'social structures' and institutions of the public sphere
- (d) The dialectic of contradictory institutionalization and demagogic populism
- (e) The return of the repressed?
- Appendix: Adorno, Theodor W. 'Introduction to Prophets of Deceit' (1949, previously unpublished)
- Bibliography
- Index