How to Critique Authoritarian Populism

Jeremiah Morelock, Ph.D. (2019), Boston College, is an Instructor of Sociology at that university. 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).

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Frankfurt School MethodologiesJeremiah Morelock and Daniel SullivanPART 1Dialectics1 When History Fails Us: Immanent Critique of Capitalism to the New Right and BeyondRobert J. Antonio2 A Dialectical Constellation of Authoritarian Populism in the United States and BrazilJeremiah Morelock and Felipe Ziotti Narita3 Capital Fetishism and the Authoritarian Personality: Critical Theory in the Weimar YearsDavid Norman Smith4 Mythology, Enlightenment, and Dialectic: Determinate NegationRudolf J. Siebert, Michael R. Ott, and Dustin J. ByrdPART 2Psychoanalysis5 The Dialectic of Unreason: Authoritarianism and the IrrationalLauren Langman and Avery Schatz6 Adorno and Freud Meet Kazuo Ishiguro: The Rise of the Far- Right from a Psychoanalytic Critical Theory PerspectiveClaudia Leeb7 Marcuse and the Symbolic Roles of the Father: Someone to Watch over MeImaculada Kangussu8 “Variation within a Single Paradigm”: The Latent Authoritarian Dynamics of the Culture IndustryGregory Joseph Menillo9 What Would Jesus Do? Christianity as Wish Image and Historical BlocAK ThompsonPART 3Human Subjects10 Mobilization of Bias Today: The Renewed Use of Established Techniques; A Reconsideration of Two Studies on Prejudice from the Institute for Social ResearchPeter-Erwin Jansen11 From ‘False’ to ‘Reified’ Consciousness: Tracing the isr’s Critical Research on AuthoritarianismDaniel Sullivan12 Franz Neumann’s Behemoth and Trumpism: Comprehending the Beast of Bad GovernmentDan Krier13 Donald Trump and the Stigmata of Democracy: Adorno and the Consolidation of a Religious RacketChristopher Craig BrittainPART 4Media Discourse14 Siegfried Kracauer and the Interpretation of FilmsJeremiah Morelock15 How to Mediate Reality: Thinking Documentary Film with Adorno and HorkheimerStefanie Baumann16 One-dimensional Social Media: The Discourse of Authoritarianism and the Authoritarianism of DiscoursePanayota Gounari17 Applying and Extrapolating Prophets of Deceit: Heuristics of ‘Agitator’ Identification through Löwenthal and Guterman’s AnalysisWilliam M. Sipling18 Dialectical Images and Contemporary Times: Thinking Critically about Authoritarian PopulismMariana Caldas Pinto FerreiraAfterwordDouglas KellnerIndex