...Peter E. Gordon The landmark 1950 study in social psychology The Authoritarian Personality represents a significant attempt to correlate right-wing political orientation with psychological or characterological dispositions. As a collaborator and coauthor of the study, Theodor W. Adorno brought...

... Press 2015 Ahmet Davutoğlu Turkey political authoritarianism neoliberalism neotraditionalism Intervention Twin Offspring of Empire, Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Neotraditionalism: Thoughts on Susan Buck-­Morss’s “Democracy...

... in the United States and China, is that the bureaucrat and the authoritarian have a tendency to dominate their societies, and the system thus squashes the individual. Waters suggests we need a new theory of fascism to analyze how insidiously authoritarianism is creeping into power worldwide. Against the demands...

... war. Under cold war conditions, as long as the countries were anticommunist, authoritarian excesses of the governments of the new nations were condoned. This provided opportunities for political and economic developments in East Asia that were alternatives to the historically determined liberal...

..., a paradoxical antielitist sort of authoritarianism. All in all, while the most spectacular manifestation of this phenomenon is no doubt in Hungary after 2010, the essay argues that it should not be considered a local anomaly but rather a more general and, to a large extent, systemic problem of the postcommunist...

....” Barely disguised as works of scholarship, these works are ideologically loaded advocacies, the one explicitly attacking “Western” culture in general and democracy more specifically in the name of hierarchical authoritarianism, the other making a plea for a Confucian religion not just for the PRC but also...

...Wang Ban In understanding rights across cultures, critics tend to view individual or human rights as unique to the West and alien to community-based or authoritarian Eastern cultures. This essay challenges this fetishism of individual rights by tracing social and intellectual movements in the West...

... to represent a more moderate and democratic form of political Islam under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This party, in power for the last twelve years, is beginning to show strong signs of establishing a majoritarian-authoritarian regime, a gain lacking in democracy. This is the new turning point...

... as well as national forces, its outcome must also be assessed in terms of the arid postwar settlement that contributed to interwar fascism and authoritarianism. This essay introduces a wider spatial horizon and a longer time frame for considering the Rising: it is an exercise in calibrating...

... intellectual upbringing that shapes Japan as the most advanced modern power in Asia rather than an archenemy to be defeated. “End of the Day” is examined as a tale that reveals the second postwar generation’s ambivalence toward corrupted politicians that emerged after the collapse of the authoritarian rule...

...Nikky Lin; Shu-jung Chen Taiwanese literature has long been closely related to social movements. In fact, Taiwan New Literature (modern Taiwanese literature) itself was born out of social protest. Taiwan’s longstanding political situation of authoritarian rule has prompted the island’s writers...

..., literary academics in the United States especially have facilitated their own weakness as disciplines with dire political consequences in an era of neo-authoritarianism. bove@pitt.edu Copyright ©2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Rita Felski digital humanities Franco Moretti composition...

... of neoliberal economics but in neoliberal thought forms and sociopolitical values that have led to an increasing pace of state and nonstate violence on a global scale. The Right assembles a set of affects that address this experience of state precarity. These authoritarian attachments tether desires...

... against the authoritarian state and its instrumentalization of religious belief and practice. In heavily ironic language, the imagery of monotheistic iconoclasm is turned inside out to reveal the iconoclasts themselves as false gods, claiming the authority to stand outside and above, and able to suspend...

...- boundary 2 41:2 (2014) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2686016 © 2014 by Duke University Press Omri / Intervention / Mandela’s Reflections 25 tice, and reproducing structures of authoritarianism, or being torn apart, like Syria, Egypt, and Libya. Throughout this period, three years now...

... elements of his movement, aspects of the classic fascism complex have been clearly discernible: both authoritarian and (in Max Weber's sense) “charismatic” leadership of the movement, the followers’ cultlike veneration of the person of the leader, the populist identification with “the people” against...

... might even say that Vogel’s representation of Deng’s reform and China’s “opening” are enduring legacies of the pre-Mao­ era.12 Cohen’s 1988 essay, “The Post-­Mao Reforms in Historical Perspective,” noticeably, looks at the similarities between the post-­Mao reforms and the “authoritarian...

... of learners who are no longer considered merely the passive recipients of authoritarian imperatives.2 Such a conception is also prevalent in the Reformpädagogie of Gus- tav Wyneken (1875–1964), one of Benjamin’s teachers during his two-­year enrollment at the Haubinda boarding school...

... by the global crisis of 2008. The executive, under Bourguiba as well as Ben Ali, whether through authoritarianism or blatant dictatorship, crushed politics by totally stifling the modest set of existing institutions, such as parliament, the Council of Consultants, and the Constitutional...

... Warnock, Imagination (Lon- don: Faber and Faber, 1976); and C. C. Clarke, Romantic Paradox (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962). Future(s) of Criticism—II / Hung / Imagination Sterilized 103 vates desires, and how authoritarian spectacles work to achieve ideological...