How to Critique Authoritarian Populism

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 Löwenthal 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