... A G A I N S T the D A Y Christopher Newfield U.S. Political Romanticism and the Psychological Impacts of Obama’s Presidency ​Barack Obama’s popular support, political authority, and approval ratings have declined steadily since the middle of 2009 and are now barely average...

...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...

...Andrew Poe What is the structure of prejudice? In his 1951 essay, “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda,” Theodor Adorno reflects on the mass psychological basis of fascism. Within that psychology, he identifies a logic of ego “enlargement,” which relates directly to the structure...

...Bharat Bhushan This article will address the political objective behind the Modi government passing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), planning to prepare a National Population Register (NPR) and a National Register of Citizens (NRC). It will examine the psychological impact of these moves...

... and the state of liberal identity politics for gay men in the United States. Avoiding subjective and psychological approaches to viral sex, this essay addresses viral sex in terms of the political economy of liberalism and biopower, featuring a discussion of Michel Foucault's late work on homosexuality and its...

... . “ Prejudice in Children .” Idea and Experiment no. 1 : 7 – 9 . Frenkel­Brunswik Else . 1952 . “ Interaction of Psychological and Sociological Factors in Political Behavior .” American Political Science Review 46 , no. 1 : 44 – 65 . Frenkel­Brunswik Else . 1954 . “ Meaning...

...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...

... freedmens rights, and political acuity. Cox therefore suggests that Reconstruction under Lincoln would have resulted in greater gains for the freedmen. Yet There were limits to the possible (p. 179). Her discussion of these political, psychological, and economic limits indicates that even Lincoln could...

... power with national government has occurred at the same time that everyday life has been pri- vatized. We are witness these days to the triumph of a political psychology of self-possession, in which, in the reversal of Thomas Hobbes’s dream of commodious living, all consumers feel insecure and thus...

..., whether in the sciences, the social sciences, politics, economics, psychology, or every­ day folklore, to reduce human beings to one element. The dozens is an attempt to say that one is nothing more than who one was born. It does this by linking one to family membership or racial group membership...

... followed carefully this realistic line of political psychology. During the first period, generally known as the Consulate, Napoleon enacted not less than three different constitutions, namely: the con­ stitution of the year VIII (1799/1800), the Senatus Consultus (S. C.) of Thermidor 16th, X (August 4...

... of the integral whole of government. This concept of unity and identity between the component parts of the government, if fully appreciated, should alter the political psychology ani­ mating the Philippine-American relations and make for better cooperation and more solidarity. The Philippine legislature has...

... afforded by Nietzche s categories comes in stress on the psychological dimension of Roosevelt s and Wilson s atti­ tudes toward power. Clearly, both men sought political careers be­ cause of personal characteristics which stemmed from childhood, and their justifications of both domestic and foreign...

... be considered out of place or untimely leads Jock McCull- och, who argues that the anticolonial activist fails to distinguish clearly between the political and the psychological, to wonder why Fanon “apolo- gizes for turning to the subject of psychopathology” (1983: 82). Yet there is something self...

..., the psychosexual dynamics of the popular theater, the psychological and material grounds of early Romantic millenarianism and political agitation, as well as the period s often desperate attempts to achieve social coherence and economic stability through the increasingly influential discourse of political economy...

...Charles B. Dew Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Two Approaches to Southern History: Psychology and Quantification Charles B. Dew In recent years historians seeking to explain the complex and often baffling history of the South have begun to employ two new and potentially...

... to see the novel operating on a psychological as well as a political level, and to miss either of them is to misunderstand the whole book. The critical problem of seeing at one instant the interaction of these two thematic strains may be solved if we can perceive the symbolic, indeed archetypal basis...

... this book do as a result of having read it? What line of conduct is the author trying to put across? Does he Stasm: Psychological Warfare and Literary Criticism 345 himself anticipate the psychological or political effects this work will produce? Does he know what he peddles? If he does, is he a propa­...

... that Ortega believes the present agrarian, in­ dustrial, or political problem does not need to be solved or treated Is Spain Done For? 253 as important. What he does mean is that history has shown a con­ sistent development of certain psychological attitudes toward the government and country which must...

... to divorce individual perception in conceiving phenomena from natural existence, the system of phenomenology, in co-operation with other procedures, including naturalistic psychology, attempts to explain the relationship between the natural world and our perceptions of it. The phenomenologist neither denies...