Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach by Leeb, Claudia
Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach by Leeb, Claudia

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

Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by...
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Author: Claudia Leeb
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Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach by Leeb, Claudia

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

$132.13
Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach by Leeb, Claudia

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

$132.13
Author: Claudia Leeb
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Contesting the Far Right examines right-wing recruitment tactics in the United States and Austria, where people discontented with the status quo have turned to far-right parties and movements that further cement capitalism's adverse effects. Leeb contends that Freudian psychoanalytic theory and early Frankfurt School Critical Theory provide analytical tools to explain this apparent contradiction in psychological terms. Living under precarity capitalism generates feelings of failure and anxiety, which people experience as non-wholeness, because it has become difficult if not impossible to live up to the fetish of economic, interpersonal, and bodily success, and the far right preys on such feelings. Its psychologically oriented propaganda tactics produce the illusion of wholeness and a positive sense of self while leaving the socioeconomic conditions that cause people's suffering intact. At the same time, they remove the inhibitions that keep people's repressed aggression and racist and sexist attitudes in check. To demonstrate the workings of this process, Leeb compares cases including Trump and the alt-right in the United States and the Freedom Party and the identitarian movement in Austria. At once theoretically rich and politically engaged, this book also offers ways to resist the far right and counter the psychological appeal of its propaganda techniques.

Author: Claudia Leeb
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 04/23/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780231213073

About the Author
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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