...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...

...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...

... 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...

... to command social support and were also legitimized by the manifest his- torical victory of “Western” liberal democracy over “Eastern” communism. This democratic and Europeanizing consensus was also linked to a critical stance toward the precommunist authoritarian political traditions...

... 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...

...Kevin Whelan This essay considers the 1916 Rising in Ireland as the political culmination of a longer social and cultural revolution that should be set within wider international, imperial, and military contexts. The year 1916 as a political moment stalled rather than furthered the social...

... 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...

... democratic order and a barbaric authoritarianism. This view has seri- ous analytical and political consequences. In upholding human rights as a hallmark of civilized uniqueness against presumed tyranny, critics often for- get the political struggle for rights and the living history of this struggle...

... 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...

..., 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...

... by the series of infrastructural collapses hastened by the pandemic, also reveal discursive slippages between New Right critiques of institutional politics and anti-globalization discourses, which conceal its authoritarian structures of feeling and neoliberal thought forms. For the New Right, following...

... authoritarian politics with international respectability. Modi's India is too important to the global neoliberal economic order, with the added advantage of demonstrating how to harness frustrated popular aspirations to an increasingly authoritarian exercise of power. And in their turn Modi and his foreign...

... as an attempt to recuperate a “reverse decolonial” politics in defense of a white nativist vision of France, revealing white supremacy's foundations in the invention of race in the colonial laboratory. The pandemic's occasioning of authoritarian state expansion further turns this issue's focus to ecofascist...

...- 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...

... leaders and the celebration of “the rise of the great nations.” In exploring the lure of a glamorous economy, Vogel bravely probes the con- nections between authoritarian rule and the attempted commodification of individuals and groups—their political aspirations, their human rights, their desire...

... embodied. With the double reinforce- ment of economic stability and political authoritarianism, China has now gradually entered the phase where complacency and indifference are the sociopolitical norm. llll Movie piracy, therefore, is only one cause and manifestation, among many...

... 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...

... China has presented neoliber- alism’s global implementation project with a problem. It requires “neoliberal elements to [interdigitate] with authoritarian centralized control.”15 Unlike Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda masterpiece, which aes- theticized fascist politics for the sake...

... . 1992 . “ The Politics of Youth: Walter Benjamin’s Reading of the Idiot .” diacritics 22 , no. 3–4 : 161 – 71 . Brushing Education against the Grain: Walter Benjamin and Reformpädagogie Élise Derroitte Walter Benjamin’s...

... German Critique, differences, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Constellations, Contemporary Political Theory, History of the Present, and Theory & Event. She was the guest editor of The Authoritarian Personality, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (2018). She also coedited, with Banu Bargu...