Critical theory and the humanities in the age of the alt-right / Christine M. Battista, Melissa R. Sande, editors.
Battista, Christine M., editor.; Sande, Melissa R., editor.
2019
HM585 .C75 2019
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Title Critical theory and the humanities in the age of the alt-right / Christine M. Battista, Melissa R. Sande, editors.
ISBN 9783030187538 (electronic bk.)
3030187535 (electronic bk.)
3030187527
9783030187521
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18753-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-18753-8 doi
Call Number HM585 .C75 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 301.01
Summary This books uses critical theory in order to understand the rise of the Alt-Right and the election of Donald Trump - and, in doing so, to assert the necessity and value of various disciplines within the humanities. While neoliberal mainstream culture has expressed shock at the seemingly expeditious rise of the Alt-Right movement and the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election, a rich tradition of theory may not only explain the occurrence of this "phenomenon," but may also chart an alternative understanding of the movement, revealing the persistence of right-wing populism throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Though the humanities have seen themselves undervalued and under attack in recent years, the historical and cultural contextualization of the current moment via theory is a means of reaffirming the value of the humanities in teaching the ever-important and multifaceted skill of critical literacy. This book re-affirms the humanities, particularly the study of literature, theory, and philosophy, through questions such as how the humanities can help us understand the here and now
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2019).
Added Author Battista, Christine M., editor.
Sande, Melissa R., editor.
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1. Introduction: The State of the Humanities and the Age of the Alt-Right
2. "For Every Two Steps Forward, it Often Feels like we Take One Step Back": Foucauldian Historiography and the Current Political Moment
3. Cultural Marxism and the Cathedral: Two Alt-Right Perspectives on Critical Theory
4. The Right to Anger: Combative Publics
5. Herrenvolk Democracy: The Rise of the Alt-Right in Trump's America
6. From NeoReactionary Theory to the Alt-Right
7. Skepticism, Relativism, and Identity: The Origins of (Pseudo- )Conservatism
8. The Materialist Conception of Fiction
9. Liberation Through Oppression: Deleuze's Minor Literature and Deterritorialized Nationalisms in James Joyce's Ulysses
10. Death by a Thousand Hyperlinks: The Commodification of Communication and Mediated Ideologies
11. Critical Race Theory, Transborder Theory, and Code Switching in the Trump Years
12. Conclusion: Mining the Past for Usable Futures: The Global Rise of the Alt-Right and the Frankfurt School.

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