Paul K. Jones

Critical theory and demagogic populism (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox 'populism studies'. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological analyses of US demagogues by members of the Frankfurt School and compares these with contemporary approaches. Modern demagogy emerges as a key under-researched feature of populism, since populist movements, whether 'left' or 'right', are highly susceptible to 'demagogic capture'. The book also details the culture industry's populist contradictions - including its role as an incubator of modern demagogues - from the 1930s through to today's social media and 'Trumpian psychotechnics'. Featuring a previously unpublished text by Adorno on modern demagogy as an appendix, it will be of interest to researchers and students in critical theory, sociology, politics, German studies, philosophy and history of ideas, as well as all those concerned about the rise of demagogic populism today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526151520
• Artikelnr.: 60453272

Autorenporträt

Paul M. Jones is an internationally recognized PHP expert who has worked as everything from junior developer to VP of Engineering in all kinds of organizations (corporate, military, non-profit, educational, medical, and others). He blogs professionally at www.paul-m-jones.com and is a regular speaker at various PHP conferences.Paul's latest open-source project is Aura for PHP. Previously, he was the architect behind the Solar Framework, and was the creator of the Savant template system. He was a founding contributor to the Zend Framework (the DB, DB_Table, and View components), and has written a series of authoritative benchmarks on dynamic framework performance.Paul was one of the first elected members of the PEAR project. He is a voting member of the PHP Framework Interoperability Group, where he shepherded the PSR-1 Coding Standard and PSR-2 Coding Style recommendations, and was the primary author on the PSR-4 Autoloader recommendation. He was also a member of the Zend PHP 5.3 Certification education advisory board.In a previous career, Paul was an operations intelligence specialist for the US Air Force. In his spare time, he enjoys putting .308 holes in targets at 400 yards.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Critically theorising demagogic populism 1 Introduction: from
orthodox 'populism studies' to critical theory 2 The Institute's analysis
of 'modern demagogy' 3 Expanding the reach of the Institute's analysis 4
Gramscian analyses of fascism and populism: Poulantzas, Laclau, Hall 5
Towards a synthesis of critical perspectives Part II: Populist
contradictions of the culture industry 6 Cultural populisms and culture
industry 7 Counter-demagogic popular art: towards a selective tradition
Excursus: an outline of Trumpian psychotechnics 8 Structural
transformations of demagogic populism Appendix: Theodore Adorno,
Introduction to Prophets of Deceit Index