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Social Solidarity And The Ontological Foundations Of Exclusionary Nationalism: Durkheim And Levinas On The Historical Manifestations Of Authoritarian Populism, C. J. Eland, Nicole L. M. T. De Pontes
Social Solidarity And The Ontological Foundations Of Exclusionary Nationalism: Durkheim And Levinas On The Historical Manifestations Of Authoritarian Populism, C. J. Eland, Nicole L. M. T. De Pontes
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
This paper seeks to explore the dynamics of contemporary authoritarian populism from a historical perspective, relying on the approaches of Durkheim’s experimental sociology and Levinas’s ethical phenomenology. By reading the works of these two thinkers in concert, a pathology is exposed within this particular form of politics in that the State must necessarily close itself off to the critique of exteriority. Our reading of Durkheim explores the social pathology of nationalism while our reading of Levinas demonstrates the philosophical dimension of this pathology as the inevitable outcome of any philosophical thinking which privileges ontology above all else. The way these …
Adorno’S Critique Of The New Right-Wing Extremism: How (Not) To Face The Past, Present, And Future, Harry F. Dahms
Adorno’S Critique Of The New Right-Wing Extremism: How (Not) To Face The Past, Present, And Future, Harry F. Dahms
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
This paper serves three purposes relating to a lecture Adorno gave in 1967 on “the new right-wing extremism” that was on the rise then in West Germany; in 2019, the lecture was published in print for the first time in German, to wide acclaim, followed by an English translation that appeared in 2020. First, it is important to situate the lecture in its historical and political context, and to relate it to Adorno’s status as a critical theorist in West Germany. Secondly, Adorno’s diagnosis of the new right-wing extremism (and related forms of populism) and his conclusions about how to …
Reflections From A Lifetime Of Activism. An Interview With Chip Berlet, Chip Berlet, Kendall Sewell, Matthew Wentz, Austin Zinkle
Reflections From A Lifetime Of Activism. An Interview With Chip Berlet, Chip Berlet, Kendall Sewell, Matthew Wentz, Austin Zinkle
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
Chip Berlet is a widely published independent scholar who studies right-wing movements in the United States and Europe, as well as the global spread of conspiracy theories. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and photographer. Since the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, Berlet has appeared frequently in the media to discuss these issues. For over twenty years, Berlet was a senior analyst at Political Research Associates (PRA), a non-profit think tank in the United States that tracks right-wing networks. Berlet is co-author (with Matthew N. Lyons) of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (Guilford 2000) and more recently editor of …