Authoritarianism in All its Guises: Perspectives on Right, Left and Center
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : March 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 258
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Forthcoming - Catalogue No : 97962
- ISBN 13 : 9781032485997
- ISBN 10 : 103248599X
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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.
Reviews and Endorsements
Over the last century psychoanalysis has provided the deepest, if still preliminary, insight we have into such forms of collective political madness, as racism, fascism and authoritarianism. Burston and Jacobsen have selected a range from among the best contemporary examples
Eli Zaretsky, Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
The culture wars refuse to go away and continue to damage free thought and emancipatory activity. We need to have resources to marshal a Left response that appreciates the nuances of contemporary reality. Authoritarianism in All its Guises offers one such resource: a lively, combative, multifaceted attack on authoritarianism as it appears on the Right and the Left, written in the interests of advancing progressive political solidarity. It will entertain, disturb and motivate in equal measure.
Stephen Frosh, Emeritus Professor in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
This is truly a volume for our times, as the merchandising - and policing - of ideas threatens to overtake our ability to think through the complex problems facing us. A must-read for those who cherish thinking as a societal safeguard.
Marilyn Charles, The Austen Riggs Center
Table of Contents
Introduction
Daniel Burston and Kurt Jacobsen
1. An Analysis of Three-Way Fights: From the First International and the Russian Revolution to Today
Sethness Castro
2.The Superego: Our Inner Authoritarian
Don Carveth
3. The New Moralism: From Agonism to Antagonism
Samir Gandesha
4. Questioning the University’s ‘Anti-Blackness’
Charles Thorpe
5. Silencing Dissenters: Academic Authoritarianism in Response to Two Hoaxes
Neil McLaughlin and Neil Wegenschimmel
6. Back to School: Academic Dogma Invades Public Life”=
Russell Jacoby
7. The Transformation of Woke: Weighing the Mischievous Role of the Right
Lauren Langman
8. Gender Trouble, Authoritarianism, and the Flight from Womanhood
Ilene Philipson
9. The Challenge of Jewish Difference: Antisemitism and the Progressive Left
Cheryl Goldstein
10. Psychoanalysis, Authoritarianism, Antisemitism & the Left: A Critical Theory Perspective
Daniel Burston
11. From Solidarity to Identity: Group Narcissism and the Demise of Left Politics
Michael Thompson
12. Center Askew: The Muddle over the Authoritarian Middle
Kurt Jacobsen
About the Editor(s)
Daniel Burston is an Associate Professor and former chair of the Psychology Department at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. He was raised and educated in Toronto, Canada, and is married with two children. He is the author of numerous books and journal articles on the history of psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, including The Legacy of Erich Fromm, The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D.Laing, and Erik Erikson and the American Psyche: Ego, Ethics and Evolution.
Kurt Jacobsen is co-editor of Free Associations journal and research associate in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, USA. He also is an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
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