How to Critique Authoritarian Populism

Jeremiah Morelock, is an Instructor of Sociology at Boston College. He has published books and articles on critical theory, media discourse, authoritarianism, and populism, including the edited volume Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (UWP, 2018).

• Acknowledgements Illustrations Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Frankfurt School Methodologies Jeremiah Morelock and Daniel SullivanPART 1 Dialectics1 When History Fails Us: Immanent Critique of Capitalism to the New Right and Beyond Robert J. Antonio2 A Dialectical Constellation of Authoritarian Populism in the United States and Brazil Jeremiah Morelock and Felipe Ziotti Narita3 Capital Fetishism and the Authoritarian Personality: Critical Theory in the Weimar Years David Norman Smith4 Mythology, Enlightenment, and Dialectic: Determinate Negation Rudolf J. Siebert, Michael R. Ott, and Dustin J. ByrdPART 2 Psychoanalysis5 The Dialectic of Unreason: Authoritarianism and the Irrational Lauren Langman and Avery Schatz6 Adorno and Freud Meet Kazuo Ishiguro: The Rise of the Far- Right from a Psychoanalytic Critical Theory Perspective Claudia Leeb7 Marcuse and the Symbolic Roles of the Father: Someone to Watch over Me Imaculada Kangussu8 “Variation within a Single Paradigm”: The Latent Authoritarian Dynamics of the Culture Industry Gregory Joseph Menillo9 What Would Jesus Do? Christianity as Wish Image and Historical BlocAK ThompsonPART 3 Human Subjects10 Mobilization of Bias Today: The Renewed Use of Established Techniques; A Reconsideration of Two Studies on Prejudice from the Institute for Social Research Peter-Erwin Jansen11 From ‘False’ to ‘Reified’ Consciousness: Tracing the isr’s Critical Research on Authoritarianism Daniel Sullivan12 Franz Neumann’s Behemoth and Trumpism: Comprehending the Beast of Bad Government Dan Krier13 Donald Trump and the Stigmata of Democracy: Adorno and the Consolidation of a Religious Racket Christopher Craig BrittainPART 4 Media Discourse14 Siegfried Kracauer and the Interpretation of Films Jeremiah Morelock15 How to Mediate Reality: Thinking Documentary Film with Adorno and Horkheimer Stefanie Baumann16 One-dimensional Social Media: The Discourse of Authoritarianism and the Authoritarianism of Discourse Panayota Gounari17 Applying and Extrapolating Prophets of Deceit: Heuristics of ‘Agitator’ Identification through Löwenthal and Guterman’s Analysis William M. Sipling18 Dialectical Images and Contemporary Times: Thinking Critically about Authoritarian Populism Mariana Caldas Pinto FerreiraAfterword Douglas KellnerIndex