Critical Theory and the Humanities in the Age of the Alt-Right

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Battista, Christine M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sande, Melissa R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching.; Cultural policy.; Cultural studies.; United States-Politics and government.; Critical theory.; Cultural Theory.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Cultural Studies.; US Politics.; Critical Theory.

This books uses critical theory in order to understand the rise of the Alt-Right and the election of Donald Trump-and, in doing so, to assert the necessity and value of various disciplines within the humanities. While neoliberal mainstream culture has expressed shock at the seemingly expeditious ris...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The State of the Humanities and the Age of the Alt-Right
• 2. "For Every Two Steps Forward, it Often Feels like we Take One Step Back": Foucauldian Historiography and the Current Political Moment
• 3. Cultural Marxism and the Cathedral: Two Alt-Right Perspectives on Critical Theory
• 4. The Right to Anger: Combative Publics
• 5. Herrenvolk Democracy: The Rise of the Alt-Right in Trump's America
• 6. From NeoReactionary Theory to the Alt-Right
• 7. Skepticism, Relativism, and Identity: The Origins of (Pseudo-)Conservatism
• 8. The Materialist Conception of Fiction
• 9. Liberation Through Oppression: Deleuze's Minor Literature and Deterritorialized Nationalisms in James Joyce's Ulysses
• 10. Death by a Thousand Hyperlinks: The Commodification of Communication and Mediated Ideologies
• 11. Critical Race Theory, Transborder Theory, and Code Switching in the Trump Years
• 12. Conclusion: Mining the Past for Usable Futures: The Global Rise of the Alt-Right and the Frankfurt School.