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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--Politics and government--2017-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : 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 arguments of the reactionary right seriously, he projects a possible, nightmarish future: a cultural nationalism governed by a popular corporatocracy. He lays bare how contemporary political struggles are being shaped by a changing national landscape of moods and feelings, marked by a growing absolutism of judgement and belief, and new forms of anxiety, alienation and narcissism.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I From Trump to the Conjuncture
- 1 The Terror and the Beast
- 2 Telling Stories and Stories Told
- 3 Other Stories are Possible, and Possibly Even Better
- Part II In Search of the Conjuncture
- 4 The New Right
- 5 The Reactionary Right
- 6 Affective Landscapes
- Part III A Conjunctural Politics
- 7 Back to the Present: A Reactionary Counter-modernity
- 8 Conclusions?
- Appendix: Cultural Studies and Conjunctural Analysis
- Bibliography
- Thanks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781786802705
- 1786802708
- 9781786802699
- 1786802694
- OCLC:
- 1019638441
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