Transformations of Liberal Reason: Migration Politics and Shifts in Cultural Self-Interpretation
Kaufmann, Hannes
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URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-157901
URL: http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2020/15790/
Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):
authoritarianism , Critical Theory , law , (neo-)liberalism , sovereignty
Universität
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Institut:
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture
Fachgebiet:
GieĂźener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften
DDC-Sachgruppe:
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Dokumentart:
Aufsatz
Zeitschrift, Serie:
On_Culture : the Open Journal for the Study of Culture
; 10
ISBN / ISSN:
2856008-5
Sprache:
Englisch
Erstellungsjahr:
2020
Publikationsdatum:
18.12.2020
Kurzfassung auf Englisch:
In light of the current multiple crises, authoritarian movements gain new strength. Claiming that globalization and especially migration is endangering social cohesion and national sovereignty, without considering political-economic aspects, they call for a strong state. Along the lines of those claims, they revise what Helmut Dubiel called the “cultural selfinterpretation,” meaning the understanding of the political super-structure of their community. Doing that, liberal values and concepts are re-inter-preted, as can be seen with the “rule of law” for example. From its intrinsic value of strengthening individual claims against the state’s rule, they turn it into a concept of state power, interpreting the “rule of law” as the rule of a mythical legitimized sover-eign. Those re-interpretations — and legal constructs referring to them — will be an-alyzed in this essay. Authoritarian politics and their roots will be regarded in their contradictory relation to (neo-)liberalism as they appear as a critique towards it at first glance. Yet, taking into account early Critical Theory and its analysis of authoritarian-ism, the article aims to show that those tendencies emerge from liberal ideas and ide-als. Seen from this perspective the article promotes the view that rather than a pure defense of liberalism, a materialist examination of liberalism’s inner contradictions is necessary to understand and criticize authoritarianism.
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