Paradoxes of Populism: Troubles of the West and Nationalism's Second Coming

di Ulf Hedetoft (Autore)

Anthem Press, 2020

“Paradoxes of Populism” argues that populism, far-from-random similarities with ordinary manifestations of nationalism, should be approached not as a venture into the classical structures of nation-states and identities, but as a disruptive and destabilizing consequence of some of the constituent elements of sovereign nation-states becoming eroded and prised apart by contextual global processes and their agents. The book demonstrates that populism, in its many varieties, is riddled with even more paradoxes and inconsistencies than mainstream nationalism itself––confusing causes and appearances, realities and fantasies and turning the world inside out. This book definitively engages with real-world challenges that the age of populism, the Second Coming of Nationalism, poses in liberal democracies states as well as their political and cultural interpretations in the populist fantasia.

• Autore: Ulf Hedetoft
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Collana: Anthem Series in Citizenship and National Identities
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 216 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 153 mm
• Peso: 454 gr.
• EAN: 9781785272141

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