Authoritarianism in All its Guises

Perspectives on Right, Left, and Center
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-48599-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Authoritarianism in All its Guises provides an interdisciplinary assessment of contemporary experiences of authoritarianism.

Drawing on psychoanalysis and critical theory, contributors from a range of academic backgrounds consider authoritarianism as it manifests in a range of movements and contexts. The chapters investigate, interrogate, and, in some cases, clash creatively and revealingly over the meanings of contemporary experiences of authoritarianism across the political spectrum. The issues raised here not only compel us to come to grips with and clarify what constitutes modern authoritarianism but also what defines the "Left" in this stubbornly neoliberal age.

Authoritarianism in All its Guises will be essential reading for academics and students of psychoanalysis, political and social psychology, sociology, history, and media and cultural studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burston, Daniel

Jacobsen, Kurt

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Introduction by Daniel Burston and Kurt Jacobsen

Chapter 1. Three-Way Fights: From the First International and the Russian Revolution to Today - Javier Sethness Castro

Chapter 2. The Superego: Our Inner Authoritarian - Don Carveth

Chapter 3. The New Moralism: From Agonism to Antagonism - Samir Gandesha

Chapter 4. Questioning the University’s "Anti-Blackness" - Charles Thorpe

Chapter 5. Silencing Dissenters: Academic Authoritarianism in Response to Two Hoaxes - Neil McLaughlin and Neil Wegenschimmel

Chapter 6. Back to School: Academic Dogma Invades Public Life - Russell Jacoby

Chapter 7. The Transformation of Woke: Weighing the Mischievous Role of the Right - Lauren Langman

Chapter 8. Gender Trouble, Authoritarianism, and the Flight from Womanhood - Ilene Philipson

Chapter 9. The Challenge of Jewish Difference: Antisemitism and the Progressive Left - Cheryl Goldstein

Chapter 10. Psychoanalysis, Authoritarianism, Antisemitism and the Progressive Left - Daniel Burston

Chapter 11. From Solidarity to Identity: Group Narcissism and the Demise of Left Politics - Michael J. Thompson

Chapter 12. Center Askew: The Muddle over the Authoritarian Middle - Kurt Jacobsen

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Burston is Associate Professor and former chair (retired) of Duquesne University’s psychology department. A historian of the mental health disciplines, he has authored several books and numerous journal articles on the history and politics of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.

Kurt Jacobsen is a Lecturer in Social Sciences and Faculty Associate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is author or editor of a dozen books and is co-editor of the UK journal Free Associations.