Neo-Authoritarianism without Authority

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CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-05-10 DOI:10.7771/1481-4374.4013

Massimiliano Tomba

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This article examines two aspects of neo-authoritarianism. The first is mainly diagnostic and concerns the nature of authoritarianism as a phenomenon of transition. The article investigates tensions and conflicts between temporalities. It pays attention to the asynchronous nature of change which, alongside the social structural level of changes, also the psycho-social level, intervene politically in different forms. There are social strata that are strangers in their own country and do not share the same present with others. For them, looking to the past is the only way to imagine a different future. If they are looking for values and authority, the neoconservatives fill the lack of authority with more power and replace the liquidation of old values with identity grounded on racism, nationalism, religion. By eroding the social cement that should keep society together, neoliberalism has also created room for compensatory phenomena, such as the need for community, authority, and politics. Understanding these needs constitutes the second, predominantly prognostic, part of this article’s analysis. Massimiliano Tomba, "Neo-Authoritarianism without Authority" page 2 of 12 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 23.1 (2021): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol23/iss1/4 Special Issue New Faces of Authoritarianism. Ed. Massimiliano Tomba

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CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture LITERATURE-

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0.40

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33.30%

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审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： The intellectual trajectory of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture is located in the humanities and social sciences in the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Comparative cultural studies is a contextual approach in the study of culture in all of its products and processes; its theoretical and methodological framework is built on tenets borrowed from the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies and from a range of thought including literary and culture theory, systems theory, and communication theories; in comparative cultural studies focus is on theory and method, as well as on application; in comparative cultural studies metaphorical argumentation and description are discouraged; the intellectual trajectory of the journal includes the postulate to work in a global and intercultural context with a plurality of methods and approaches, and in interdisciplinarity in the study of the processes of communicative action(s) in culture, the production and processes of culture, the products of culture, and the study of the how of these processes; the epistemological bases of comparative cultural studies are in (radical) constructivism and in methodology the contextual (systemic and empirical) approach is favored (however, comparative cultural studies does not exclude textual analysis proper or other established fields of scholarship).