...George B. de Huszar Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 THE DANGER OF AUTHORITARIANISM GEORGE B. de HUSZAR IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND the conditions of disintegra­ tion, complexity, and insecurity which have led to the yearning for a leader who promises to guide people into paradise...

...Samantha Rose Hill This essay considers the theme of thought patterns in Adorno’s chapter “Politics and Economics in the Interview Material” in The Authoritarian Personality . Looking at the relationship between the culture industry and the successful dissemination of fascist propaganda, I distill...

...Barbara Umrath In the present context, political commentators and analysts, journalists, and scholars alike have returned to the Frankfurt School’s studies on authoritarianism in order to explain the recent rise of right-wing movements and their electoral success in countries that hitherto were...

...Michael Stein This essay attempts to demonstrate the limits of American social science by examining the tension between method and theory and, in particular, how this tension plays out in The Authoritarian Personality as well as in contemporary works of political psychology informed by Adorno et al...

...Robert Hullot-Kentor “The essay as form,” Adorno (1984: 160) writes in The Authoritarian Personality , seeks to understand concepts as they “are already unconsciously named in language.” This is not exactly philology since it is only in pressing the given meanings further than their given sense...

...Christian Thorne The virtue of a psychological account of National Socialism is that it invites us to think of fascism as something other than an ideology. A person doesn’t become a fascist by reciting a creed or subscribing to a set doctrine. Even so, The Authoritarian Personality draws...

... their prehistory onward with intertwined authoritarian populist and authoritarian statist discourses and practices. Nonetheless, the intensification and interaction of crisis-tendencies of different kinds in different phases and changing forms of resistance have led to an increasingly authoritarian statist form...

... that authoritarian neoliberalism in Berlin and Paris have played a central—yet variegated—role in creating nondemocratic conditions that have led to rental housing insecurity for vulnerable populations, including refugees. Second, we suggest that the refugee crisis trope itself may be understood as an integral...

...Gillian Hart Two themes loom large in burgeoning discussions and debates over populism: (1) growing deployments of “authoritarian populism” by the liberal establishment as a means of discrediting populist politics from both the Left and the Right, and (2) vigorous advocacy of left populism...

... political economy perspective can mediate between abstract-simple and concrete-complex analyses by posing three meso-level questions. Third, these questions enable the combination of ordoliberal and authoritarian turns to examine cases in the non-Western contexts where sovereign, disciplinary...

...Cemal Burak Tansel; Nik Theodore; Jamie Peck This essay examines the evolving symbiosis of authoritarian state power and neoliberal governance in the Middle East in the wake of the 2007–8 economic crisis and popular uprisings in 2011–13. I revisit the debates on “authoritarian resilience...

... the reasons that the solidarity initiatives have received support from academics and students who are not in Turkey, citing the resonance of the demands for a democratically organized university and academic freedom under neoliberal and authoritarian conditions across the globe. cihantekay@gmail.com...

...Robyn Marasco This article considers The Authoritarian Personality in terms of a consistent argument in early critical theory—that fascism begins in the family. It explores the foundations of this argument in Max Horkheimer’s Studies on Authority and the Family , his first major research project...

... of prejudice. Fascism depends on affective attachments, magnified by prejudice (a magnification that takes place through identification with a leader). This is a clear theme in Adorno’s critical theory. In his previous work in The Authoritarian Personality , Adorno set out the task to discover differential...

...Saygun Gökarıksel; Z. Umut Türem Recent studies of authoritarianism in Turkey often conceptualize the problem as a move away from the rule of law toward rule by law; that is, law’s political instrumentalization by powerful authoritarian movements or personalities. Informed by the liberal legalist...

...Mitchell Dean This paper argues against a recent authoritarian turn of neoliberalism, pointing to its advocacy of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s and the use of illiberal practices for certain populations in “welfare reform” from the 1990s. Instead, it characterizes today’s neoliberalism...

...Fadi A. Bardawil This essay examines three texts that were published in 1950: Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism , Adorno et al.’s The Authoritarian Personality , and Octave Mannoni’s Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization . I use these texts to examine critical theory’s colonial...

...Saygun Gökarıksel This essay explores the embodied forms of power and struggle that are manifest in the Boğaziçi University protests against the authoritarian offensive of the Turkish government. By focusing on the student and faculty protests, especially, the daily gowned performances, it suggests...

...Luhuna Carvalho This article looks at several attempts to conceptualize a legitimate use of revolutionary violence in the anti‐authoritarian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The central problem confronting the repertoire of action in this period lay in understanding how a violence...

... analytical utility, it has been widely applied to the Arab region. Despite the proliferation of Arab NGOs and other forms of association, authoritarian Arab regimes were fairly effective in blocking the emergence of truly independent associations of any sort. In fact, “civil society organizations” played...