Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far Right since 1945: 3 (Explorations of the Far Right) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3838205545 ISBN 13: 9783838205540

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag Jessica Haunschild Christian Schoen GbR, 2014

Synopsis

This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a Trojan Horse of deception to re-gain greater influence on public policy.
Since the end of the Second World War, the extreme right has been tactically using 'doublespeak', aping the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accurate recognition of the extreme right pedigree means taking seriously their deliberately crafted slogans, symbols and themes. The essays in this book inquire into the extreme right's attempts at 'repackaging' contemporary ultranationalism to make it palatable to more mainstream European and American tastes.

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Review:

Interesting books address relevant issues, study largely neglected cases, or provoke further research by raising new questions with its answers to old ones. Doublespeak does all of this and more, making it an important contribution to the literature on the far right for scholars and students from a broad variety of academic disciplines.-Cas Mudde, University of Georgia

About the Author:

Dr Matthew Feldman is a Reader in Contemporary History at Teesside University, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway, and a Senior Researcher with the Cantemir Institute, University of Oxford. Dr Paul Jackson is co-editor of Wiley-Blackwell's online journal Compass: Political Religions, an editor of the Mapping the Far Right book series, and an Associate Editor of the Historicising Modernism book series.

About this edition

• Publisher: ibidem-Verlag Jessica Haunschild Christian Schoen GbR
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3838205545
• ISBN 13: 9783838205540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Feldman Matthew, Jackson Paul