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Contesting the Far Right

A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach

By: Claudia Leeb

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Contesting the Far Right

A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach

By: Claudia Leeb

Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact to produce this extreme political shift. Contesting the Far Right examines right-wing recruitment tactics in the United States and Austria, where people discontented with the status quo have turned to far-right parties and movements that further cement capitalism’s adverse effects. Leeb contends that Freudian psychoanalytic theory and early Frankfurt School Critical Theory provide analytical tools to explain this apparent contradiction in psychological terms. Living under precarity capitalism generates feelings of failure and anxiety, which people experience as non-wholeness, because it has become difficult if not impossible to live up to the fetish of economic, interpersonal, and bodily success, and the far right preys on such feelings. Its psychologically oriented propaganda tactics produce the illusion of wholeness and a positive sense of self while leaving the socioeconomic conditions that cause people’s suffering intact. At the same time, they remove the inhibitions that keep people’s repressed aggression and racist and sexist attitudes in check. To demonstrate the workings of this process, Leeb compares cases including Trump and the alt-right in the United States and the Freedom Party and the identitarian movement in Austria. At once theoretically rich and politically engaged, this book also offers ways to resist the far right and counter the psychological appeal of its propaganda techniques.

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Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism

Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject

By: Claudia Leeb

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Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism

Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject

By: Claudia Leeb

According to postmodern scholars, subjects are defined only through their relationship to institutions and social norms. But if we are only political people insofar as we are subjects of existing power relations, there is little hope of political transformation. To instigate change, we need to draw on collective power, but appealing to a particular type of subject, whether "working class," "black," or "women," will always be exclusionary. This issue is a particular problem for feminist scholars, who are frequently criticized for assuming that they can make broad claims for all women, while failing to acknowledge their own exclusive and powerful position (mostly white, Western, and bourgeois). Recent work in political and feminist thought has suggested that we can get around these paradoxes by wishing away the idea of political subjects entirely or else thinking of political identities as constantly shifting. In this book, Claudia Leeb argues that these are both failed ideas. She instead suggests a novel idea of a subject in outline. Over the course of the book Leeb grounds this concept in work by Adorno, Lacan, and Marx - the very theorists who are often seen as denying the agency of the subject. Leeb also proposes that power structures that create political subjects are never all-powerful. While she rejects the idea of political autonomy, she shows that there is always a moment in which subjects can contest the power relations that define them.

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Oxford University Press

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0190639903

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The Politics of Repressed Guilt

The Tragedy of Austrian Silence

By: Claudia Leeb

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The Politics of Repressed Guilt

The Tragedy of Austrian Silence

By: Claudia Leeb

Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, this book illustrates the relevance and applicability of a political discussion of guilt and democracy. It appropriates psychoanalytic theory to analyse court documents of Austrian Nazi perpetrators as well as recent public controversies surrounding Austria's involvement in the Nazi atrocities and ponders how the former agents of Hitlerite crimes and contemporary Austrians have dealt with their guilt. Exposing the defensive mechanisms that have been used to evade facing involvement in Nazi atrocities, Leeb considers the possibilities of breaking the cycle of negative consequences that result from the inability to deal with guilt. Leeb shows us that only by guilt can individuals and nations take responsibility for their past crimes, show solidarity with the victims of crimes, and prevent the emergence of new crimes.

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EUP

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1474452183

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Politics of Repressed Guilt

The Tragedy of Austrian Silence

By: Claudia Leeb

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Politics of Repressed Guilt

The Tragedy of Austrian Silence

By: Claudia Leeb

Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, Claudia Leeb discusses guilt and democracy in the case of Austrian Nazi perpetrators and recent public controversies surrounding Austria's involvement in the Nazi atrocities. She shows us that only by guilt can individuals and nations take responsibility for their past crimes.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474413250

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Politics of Repressed Guilt

The Tragedy of Austrian Silence

By: Leeb Claudia Leeb

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The Tragedy of Austrian Silence

By: Leeb Claudia Leeb

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474413269

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Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism

Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject

By: Claudia Leeb

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Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism

Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject

By: Claudia Leeb

Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism develops the idea of the political subject-in-outline to find solutions to the dilemmas inherent in the idea of the political subject, and provide answers to the when, who, how and what of socio-political change.

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Contesting the Far Right

A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach

By: Claudia Leeb

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A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach

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Working Class Women in Elite Academia

A Philosophical Inquiry

By: Claudia Leeb

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Working Class Women in Elite Academia

A Philosophical Inquiry

By: Claudia Leeb

In this original book, Claudia Leeb uses a poststructuralist perspective to chart explicit and tacit assumptions about the working class in general and the working-class woman specifically in the classical texts of prominent political philosophers and social critics including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Rousseau, Marx, Weber and Bourdieu. The author argues that philosophical discourses that construct such categories as the Other function as disciplinary practices that aim at keeping working-class women either out of or at the margins of academic institutions. She analyzes interviews with women from a range of national origins in New York City's elite academic institutions, who identified their backgrounds as working class. Her analysis foregrounds the potential of these women to resist class and gender discipline. Working-Class Women in Elite Academia makes a significant contribution to political-theory literature on injustice that challenges and reconfigures the meanings of woman and working class. It is of particular interest to political philosophers, critical theorists, and women's and gender studies scholars.

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Peter Lang

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9052019797

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Working Class Women in Elite Academia

A Philosophical Inquiry

By: Claudia Leeb

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A Philosophical Inquiry

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Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy

Selected Papers of the 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating International Women's Day

By: Lisa Nicole Gurley,Claudia Leeb,Anna Aloisia Moser

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Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy

Selected Papers of the 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating International Women's Day

By: Lisa Nicole Gurley,Claudia Leeb,Anna Aloisia Moser

The color of the book's cover alludes to the time and context in which this important volume originated: the 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating International Women's Day at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At that time `orange alerts' were issued by the United States to create a climate of fear and thereby stifle any critical debate of its foreign and domestic policy. The feminist thinkers presented in this volume are alert that such a critique is needed. They draw on the various languages of their fields to address wide-ranging topics and key questions in feminist politics, theory and philosophy. They all confront the state of urgency concerning the role of women in all classes of society, in all fields of research and the academy. This unique collection ranges across disciplines; as such the four major topics - aesthetics and female representation, love and psychoanalysis, care and ethics, the different understandings of `women' - represent current topics of cross-disciplinary interest for Women's and Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Political Science.

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0820466441

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Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy

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