Critical Theory from the Margins: Horizons of Possibility in the Age of Extremism

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nChapter 1 Captives of a Totalitarian Space\n	The Totalitarian End Point of Capitalism or Neoliberal Totalitarianism\n	The Death of the Last European and the Philosopher of Aura\n	Spatiality and Conceptualizing Aura\n	Totalitarian Space: The Capitalist Graveyard of Aura\n	Light as a Trap: Death by Exhibition\nChapter 2 Toward a Critical Theory of Fascism: Fascism as an Ideology Form\n	Fascism as a Concept\n	Stations in Fascism Studies\n	Fascism as Ideology Form\n	Diagnosing Fascism\n		Fascism Signifies a Class of Ideologies\n		The Fascist Double Bifurcation\n		The Great Little Leader\n		The Fascist Power Complex\n		Fascism and Anti-Proletarian Propaganda\n			Fascism is Counter-Revolutionary\n	Fascism without Normal Symptoms\n		The Sociopsychology of Fascism\n	Conclusion\nChapter 3 Mobomass Mentality, Culture Industry, Fascism\n	Class versus “the Mass”\n	A New Concept: Mobomass\n	Marx’s Democratic Stance with the Masses\n	Culture Industry and Fascism\n	Mobomassification and Fascism\n	The Capitalist Destruction of Aura and Fascism\n	Totalitarianism, the Market, and Fascism\nChapter 4 It Is Political, not Cultural\n	Culturalism and the Rise of the Far Right\n	Culturalism as New Racism\n	Culturalization and Politics\n	Culturalism and the Denial of Personhood\n	Multiculturalism is New Racism\n	Undoing Culturalism\n	Appendix: The Case of the Indigenous Pueblo of Hueyapan\nChapter 5 A Critique of Positivism\n	Critical Theory’s Fidelity to Materialism\n	The Problem with Positivism\n	Spatial Utopia versus Historical Utopia\n	Two Opposing Senses of Idealism: Culturalism as Bad Idealism\n	Revolutionary Negativity\n	Going Beyond the False Dichotomy of Positivism and Superstition\nChapter 6 Critical Theory and the Margins\n	The Anti-Enlightenment Nature of Eurocentrism\n	Critical Theory and Emancipation\n	The Oppressive Nature of Instrumental Rationality\n	Controlled Environment or Environments of Control\nEpilogue\n	Fascism with a Thousand Faces\n	Universal Discrimination and the Democratic Camouflaging of Culturalism\n	“Islamo-Leftism”: Another Oxymoron Invented by the Right\nNotes\nReferences\nIndex