Masochistic Nationalism

This book examines the nature of the conflict between right-wing populism and multiculturalism: the West's defining conflict in the modern age.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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