1st Edition

Masochistic Nationalism Multicultural Self-Hatred and the Infatuation with the Exotic

By Göran Adamson Copyright 2021
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the nature of the conflict between right-wing populism and multiculturalism: the West’s defining conflict in the modern age. Drawing on a plethora of evidence from politics and culture in the West, it argues that these two positions, while antagonistic on the surface, are in fact similar: nationalism and multiculturalism are two names for one idea, the difference between them... Read more

Preface  1. Introduction   2. Historical Background   3. The Power of the Past   4. The Virtue of Amnesia and the Vice of Difference  5. The Purpose of Art, Well, That´s Really None of Our Business   6. The Ogre of Collectivism  7. Power and Emotions   8. On Moral Show-Off, and the Collateral Damage of Self-Abasement   9. Death Cult and the Reactionary Onslaught on Wit  10. 1789 and the Gestures of Condescension  11. Racism  12. A Liberal Way Out of Nationalist Ossification?   13. A Final Word

Biography

Göran Adamson is Associate Professor in Sociology, with a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE), and the author of Populist Parties and the Failure of the Elites: The Rise of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and The Trojan Horse: A Leftist Critique of Multiculturalism in the West.