Neo-Nazi Postmodern
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-41712-0 (ISBN)
Esther Elizabeth Adaire analyses the electoral success of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) party in 2017, the growing presence of PEGIDA on German streets, and the anti-COVID lockdown protests led by conspiracy theorist groups such as Querdenken which have taken aback liberal onlookers for whom Germany’s robust culture of Holocaust consciousness is supposed to provide a panacea against neo-Nazism. Adaire examines how, since unification, the intellectual Neue Rechte has increasingly destabilized the foundations of historical memory and lesson-learning in Germany, often doing so in the pages of mainstream conservative publications.
Neo-Nazi Postmodern convincingly contends that far-right intellectuals – joined by notable left-wing apostates who brought with them an anti-establishment critique borrowed from the language of postmodernism – have since the early 1990s excused and justified an increasingly violent far-right youth scene, even becoming leaders of this scene themselves. The book therefore traces the development of today’s German far-right throughout several stages, notable scandals, and the ongoing destabilization of memory and truth from unification onwards, showing how previously disparate groups such as neo-Nazis, Neue Rechte intellectuals, and political fringe parties merged over time. This far-right scene, Adaire adeptly demonstrates, has come to embody what the historian Walter Laqueur once dubbed ‘Postmodern Terrorism’: a mixture of cell-based terror structures, reliance on Internet technologies for organizational purposes, and the sowing of epistemic chaos via informational warfare.
Esther Elizabeth Adaire is an intelligence analyst at a leading US law-enforcement agency. She holds a PhD in Modern European History from the Graduate Center at CUNY, USA, and has taught undergraduates at both The Cooper Union and John Jay College in New York City, lecturing in topics such as terrorism, right-wing extremism, 20th century warfare, and the history of technology.
Introduction
1. SKINS: German Unification and the Neo-Nazi Scene
2. COUNTERMEMORY: The Reactionary Historicism of the Neue Rechte
3. BUNDESWEHR: Right-Wing Extremism in the German Armed Forces
4. LEADERLESS RESISTANCE: Failings in Counterterrorism from the NPD to the NSU
5. VOLK: PEGIDA, the AfD, and the Disruptive Tactics of the Neue-Neue Rechte
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.04.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-41712-2 / 1350417122 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-41712-0 / 9781350417120 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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