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Book SynopsisA cultural analysis of anxiety, alienation and narcissism in America.
Trade Review'A profound and insightful analysis of the diverse forces that have led to Trump's election. Everyone should read this book if they want to understand the rise of authoritarianism in the United States'
-- Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, author of On Critical Pedagogy
'This is a timely book, to say the least. Beyond the moment, however, Grossberg's vision is thought-provoking, stirring, even exciting as well as frightening because it shows that there are new things to say about the morass of American and other democratic politics today and new ways to understand our situation. It's also a rattling good read'
-- Meaghan Morris, University of Sydney
Table of ContentsPreface
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
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