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Authentocrats - Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness (Paperback, New edition)
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Authentocrats - Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness (Paperback, New edition)
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We are entering, we are told, a post-liberal age. Authoritarian
populism is in the political ascendant, and notions of
permissiveness, multiculturalism and "identity politics" have
allegedly failed us, meaning that we must now fall back on some
notion of tradition. However, it's not only the usual, conservative
suspects who have got on board with this argument, but centrist
politicians who, at least notionally, are hostile to the likes of
Donald Trump and UKIP. Authentocrats examines this populism of the
centre, and exposes how its spurious concern for "real people" is
part of a broader turn within British culture (as exemplified in
the brute masculinity of Daniel Craig's James Bond, the allegedly
"progressive" patriotism of nature writing, and a televisual
obsession with the World Wars), as it withdraws from the openness
of the Nineties under the bad-faith supposition that there's
nowhere to go but backwards. In their declaration that the left can
only save itself by becoming less liberal, Authentocrats charges
liberals themselves with fuelling the post-liberal turn, and asks
where the space might be found for an alternative.
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