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Dark Fantasy - Regressive Movements and the Search for Meaning in Politics (Hardcover)
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Dark Fantasy - Regressive Movements and the Search for Meaning in Politics (Hardcover)
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Recent trends in politics culminating in the US with the election
of Donald Trump both provoked and expressed a troubling
intensification of emotion in the body politic. Heightened levels
of anger, frustration, and distrust, the dismissal of the norms of
politics and policy making, and the prevalence of intractable
conflict indicated an increase in the power of regressive forces.
The power of these forces takes the form of dark fantasies
involving the loss, indeed the destruction, of safe space, the
prevalence of existential threat, and the corrosion of the kinds of
relationships that make living in the world tolerable. This book
explores the emotional meaning of regressive movements in
contemporary politics with special reference to Trump and his
supporters. Its main hypothesis is that the primary goal of these
movements is not to restore a lost world of safety and wellbeing as
they claim it is, but to make their members' experience of the
destruction and loss of that world universal.
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