Contesting the Far Right by Claudia Leeb
Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact to produce this extreme political shift.-
Social Acceleration
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Left-Wing Melancholia
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Alienation
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Death and Mastery
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Horrorism
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The The Political Clinic
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Pathologies of Reason
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Hermeneutics as Critique
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Democracy in What State?
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A Political Economy of the Senses
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Jürgen Habermas
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Reckoning with Racial Capitalism
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Mute Speech
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Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism
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Political Uses of Utopia
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Another Universalism
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Ambivalent Recognition
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Queer Terror
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Freedom's Right
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The End of Progress
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Regenerative Politics
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Hierarchies at Work
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Love Troubles
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Recognition or Disagreement
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Birth of a New Earth
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Fear of Breakdown
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Critical Theory in Critical Times
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The Experience of Injustice
Claudia Leeb masterfully recuperates early critical theory's fecund use of Freud to illuminate a hard-right social turnDrawing as well on feminist and anticolonial insights, she analyzes the white male psyche forged in the crucible of neoliberal precarity. This work is an important inquiry into the psychological drive toward fascism today. -- Wendy Brown, Institute for Advanced Study
Contesting the Far Right offers an essential framework for understanding and resisting the resurgence of fascist movements today. Leeb offers a combined approach that involves both psychoanalytic theory and structural analysis of capitalism, racism, and masculinity. This book should be discussed and read by all scholars and researchers seeking to understand the fascist threat today. -- Joan Braune, author of Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope
How does precarity capitalism redefine identity? How are ideals of success our collective undoing? Drawing on the Frankfurt School, Claudia Leeb forcefully analyzes the psychological investments that hold the structures of precarity capitalism in place. With a sober assessment of the United States and Austria, Leeb explores the curious desire for wholeness that attracts many to right-wing politics. -- Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota
Contesting the Far Right offers an essential framework for understanding and resisting the resurgence of fascist movements today. Leeb offers a combined approach that involves both psychoanalytic theory and structural analysis of capitalism, racism, and masculinity. This book should be discussed and read by all scholars and researchers seeking to understand the fascist threat today. -- Joan Braune, author of Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope
How does precarity capitalism redefine identity? How are ideals of success our collective undoing? Drawing on the Frankfurt School, Claudia Leeb forcefully analyzes the psychological investments that hold the structures of precarity capitalism in place. With a sober assessment of the United States and Austria, Leeb explores the curious desire for wholeness that attracts many to right-wing politics. -- Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota
Claudia Leeb is associate professor of political theory at Washington State University. Her recent books include The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence (2018) and Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism: Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject (2017).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231213073 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231213077 |
| Title | Contesting the Far Right |
| Author | Claudia Leeb |
| Series | New Directions In Critical Theory |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2024-04-23 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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