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The Philosophical Foundation of Alt-Right Politics and Ressentiment
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2019
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Since its inception, America has laid claim to a liberal democratic style of government with various well-known philosophical tenets. Yet the underlying beliefs or political philosophy of one of the movements that opposes liberal democratic forms of government—the alt-right—are relatively unknown.
The Philosophical Foundation of Alt-Right Politics and Ressentiment is a timely book that analyses how the principles of current American politics have developed. William Remley asserts that the philosophy of Traditionalism is central to the alt-right’s understanding of itself and explores the perceived threat to social status that seems to have propelled the movement to its prominent place in American politics. Remley uses Social Dominance Theory and the philosophical work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche to look at how group formation and hierarchies have given rise to authoritarian leadership and how a tendency that can be best described and explained through Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment led to the anti-foreign sentiment that rules American politics today.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-78661-197-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-78661-198-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
195
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter One: Philosophia Perennis, or the Art of “Anamnesis” No access
Chapter Two: René Guénon and Traditionalist Philosophy No access
Chapter Three: Julius Evola’s Traditionalism No access
Chapter Four: General Outline of Social Dominance Theory No access
Chapter Five: Group Formation, Hierarchy, and Human Freedom in Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason No access
