Under the cover of chaos : Trump and the battle for the American right / Lawrence Grossberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossberg, Lawrence, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trump, Donald, 1946-.

Trump, Donald.

Conservatism--United States.

Conservatism.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--2017-2021.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xv, 165 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Pluto Press, [2018]

Summary:

Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his incompetence? Are his populism, illiberalism and nationalism just cynical appeals to existing feelings of abandonment, resentment and rage? Lawrence Grossberg shows that the truth is bigger and more frightening. Locating Trumpism in the long struggle among traditional conservatism, the new right and the reactionary right, he suggests that the chaos is far more significant and strategic ... and dangerous. Taking the intellectual arguments of the reactionary right seriously, he projects a possible, nightmarish future; a cultural nationalism governed by a popular corporatocracy. Grossberg lays bare how contemporary political struggles are being shaped by a changing national landscape of moods and feelings, marked by a growing absolutism of judgment and belief, and new forms of anxiety, alienation, and narcissism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I From Trump to the Conjuncture

1 The Terror and the Beast 3

2 Telling Stories and Stories Told 16

3 Other Stories are Possible, and Possibly Even Better 31

Part II In Search of the Conjuncture

4 The New Right 53

5 The Reactionary Right 68

6 Affective Landscapes 91

Part III A Conjunctural Politics

7 Back to the Present: A Reactionary Counter-modernity 113

8 Conclusions? 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164).

ISBN:

9780745337913

0745337910

9780745337920

0745337929

OCLC:

994903968