How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

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 Lwenthal 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