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).

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors



Introduction: Frankfurt School Methodologies

 Jeremiah Morelock and Daniel Sullivan



PART 1

Dialectics



1 When History Fails Us: Immanent Critique of Capitalism to the New Right and Beyond

  Robert J. Antonio



2 A Dialectical Constellation of Authoritarian Populism in the United States and Brazil

  Jeremiah Morelock and Felipe Ziotti Narita



3 Capital Fetishism and the Authoritarian Personality: Critical Theory in the Weimar Years

  David Norman Smith



4 Mythology, Enlightenment, and Dialectic: Determinate Negation

  Rudolf J. Siebert, Michael R. Ott, and Dustin J. Byrd



PART 2

Psychoanalysis



5 The Dialectic of Unreason: Authoritarianism and the Irrational

  Lauren Langman and Avery Schatz



6 Adorno and Freud Meet Kazuo Ishiguro: The Rise of the Far- Right from a Psychoanalytic Critical Theory Perspective

  Claudia Leeb



7 Marcuse and the Symbolic Roles of the Father: Someone to Watch over Me

  Imaculada Kangussu



8 “Variation within a Single Paradigm”: The Latent Authoritarian Dynamics of the Culture Industry

  Gregory Joseph Menillo



9 What Would Jesus Do? Christianity as Wish Image and Historical Bloc

  AK Thompson



PART 3

Human Subjects



10 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 Jansen



11 From ‘False’ to ‘Reified’ Consciousness: Tracing the isr’s Critical Research on Authoritarianism

  Daniel Sullivan



12 Franz Neumann’s Behemoth and Trumpism: Comprehending the Beast of Bad Government

  Dan Krier



13 Donald Trump and the Stigmata of Democracy: Adorno and the Consolidation of a Religious Racket

  Christopher Craig Brittain



PART 4

Media Discourse



14 Siegfried Kracauer and the Interpretation of Films

  Jeremiah Morelock



15 How to Mediate Reality: Thinking Documentary Film with Adorno and Horkheimer

  Stefanie Baumann



16 One-dimensional Social Media: The Discourse of Authoritarianism and the Authoritarianism of Discourse

  Panayota Gounari



17 Applying and Extrapolating Prophets of Deceit: Heuristics of ‘Agitator’ Identification through Löwenthal and Guterman’s Analysis

  William M. Sipling



18 Dialectical Images and Contemporary Times: Thinking Critically about Authoritarian Populism

  Mariana Caldas Pinto Ferreira



 Afterword

  Douglas Kellner



Index