{"product_id":"contesting-the-far-right-a-psychoanalytic-and-feminist-critical-theory-approach-paperback","title":"Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaudia Leeb\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eContesting the Far Right\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaudia Leeb is associate professor of political theory at Washington State University. Her recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence \u003c\/i\u003e(2018) and \u003ci\u003ePower and Feminist Agency in Capitalism: Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject \u003c\/i\u003e(2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52724919992627,"sku":"9780231213073","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/yMlpD3JZ-79780231213073.webp?v=1763693787","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/contesting-the-far-right-a-psychoanalytic-and-feminist-critical-theory-approach-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}