Under the cover of chaos : Trump and the battle for the American right /

Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his incompetence? Are his populism, illiberalism and nationalism just cynical appeals to existing feelings ofabandonment, resentment and rage? Lawrence Grossberg shows that...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: GROSSBERG, LAWRENCE
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : PLUTO Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Trump, Donald, > 1946-
Trump, Donald John, > (1946- ...)
2017-2021
Conservatism > United States.
Conservatisme > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Conservatism
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government > 2017-2021.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 2017-2021.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • part I. From Trump to the conjuncture
  • 1. The terror and the beast
  • 2. Telling stories and stories told
  • 3. Other stories are possible, and possibly even better
  • part II. In search of the conjuncture
  • 4. The new right
  • 5. The reactionary right
  • 6. Affective landscapes
  • part III. A conjunctural politics
  • 7. Back to the present: a reactionary counter-modernity
  • 8. Conclusions?
  • Appendix: cultural studies and conjunctural analysis
  • Bibliography
  • Thanks.

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