How Fascism Works
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How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "No single book is as relevant to the present moment."-Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen"With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism."-Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer
A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history-now with a new preface.
As a scholar of philosophy and propaganda and the child of refugees of WWII Europe, Jason Stanley has long understood that democratic societies, including the United States, can be vulnerable to fascism. In How Fascism Works, he identifies ten pillars of fascist politics-an appeal to the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, victimhood, law and order, sexual anxiety, favoring "the heartland," and a dismantling of public goods and unions-that amount to an urgent diagnosis of the tactics right-wing politicians use to break down democracies and a critical lens on the current moment.
Stanley knits together reflections on history, philosophy, sociology, and critical race theory with stories from contemporary Hungary, Poland, India, Myanmar, and the United States, among other nations, making clear the immense dangers of language and beliefs that separate people into an "us" and a "them." By uncovering disturbing patterns that are as prevalent today as ever, Stanley reveals that the stuff of politics-rhetoric and myth-can become policy and reality all too quickly. Only by recognizing them, he argues, can we begin to resist their most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals.
At Yale University, Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy. He is the author of five books, including How Propaganda Works, which won the Association of American Publishers' Prose Prize for Philosophy, and How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. He is a member of the Prison Policy Initiative's board of directors and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, and the London Guardian on topics such as propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, democracy, and authoritarianism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525511854 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525511857 |
| Title | How Fascism Works |
| Author | Jason Stanley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2020-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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