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Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach

Author(s) : Claudia Leeb

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Claudia Leeb masterfully recuperates early critical theory's fecund use of Freud to illuminate a hard-right social turn. Drawing 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