Adorno on democratic pedagogy and the education of emotions: Pedagogical insights for resisting right-wing extremism

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032098537
Author(s):  
Michalinos Zembylas
Keyword(s):  
Right Wing ◽  
Critical Spaces ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
Educational Thought ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Democratic Pedagogy ◽  
The World ◽  
Right Wing Extremism

This paper examines Theodor W. Adorno’s notion of democratic pedagogy and the role of emotions in re-educating and democratizing a society, particularly in light of the current political situation in many countries around the world in which right-wing extremism is on the rise. The paper revisits Adorno’s educational thought on critical self-reflection, focusing on his views on educating emotions and the tensions between democratic pedagogy and a schooling of the emotions. It is argued that Adorno’s contribution to discussions of the role of emotion in education and his suggestions about how to resist and counteract fascism and right-wing extremism are not only illuminating today, but also provide remarkable clarity and force of argumentation in educational efforts to create critical spaces in the classroom in which moral and political learning does not end up a form of sentimental manipulation.

scholarly journals Understanding violent extremism in the 21st century: The (re)emerging role of relative deprivation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas R. Kunst ◽  
Milan Obaidi
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Right Wing Extremism

Recently, the world has experienced a wave of violent protest, and in particular Islamist and right-wing extremism have become increasing challenges for many societies. We argue that especially the experience of relative deprivation, that is the perception that oneself or one’s group is undeservingly worse off than others, can explain various, contemporary forms of violent extremism, including (a) low-power groups’ violent attempts to challenge the unequal status quo, (b) high-power groups’ violent defense of their privileged position, and sometimes even (c) people’s violent attempt to help out-groups in need. In light of recent research and growing social inequalities, we expect relative deprivation to be a key factor driving violent extremism across cultures and contexts in the 21st century.

““Verfassungsfeindlich““: Church, State, And New Religions In Germany

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irving Hexham ◽  
Karla Poewe
Keyword(s):  
Right Wing ◽  
German Government ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Right Wing Extremism

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the ideology of the German anti-cult movement. It also discusses the unique problems facing the German government resulting from right-wing extremism and the role of German cult experts in defining new religions as verfassungsfeindlich, hostile to the constitution.

scholarly journals Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062110593
Author(s):  
Mohammad Atari ◽  
Aida Mostafazadeh Davani ◽  
Drew Kogon ◽  
Brendan Kennedy ◽  
Nripsuta Ani Saxena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Real Group ◽  
The World

Online radicalization is among the most vexing challenges the world faces today. Here, we demonstrate that homogeneity in moral concerns results in increased levels of radical intentions. In Study 1, we find that in Gab—a right-wing extremist network—the degree of moral convergence within a cluster predicts the number of hate-speech messages members post. In Study 2, we replicate this observation in another extremist network, Incels. In Studies 3 to 5 ( N = 1,431), we demonstrate that experimentally leading people to believe that others in their hypothetical or real group share their moral views increases their radical intentions as well as willingness to fight and die for the group. Our findings highlight the role of moral convergence in radicalization, emphasizing the need for diversity of moral worldviews within social networks.

scholarly journals Myth Actualization as a Way to Build the Self-Reflective Plot of the Film “Ilyich’s Gate”

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 595-605
Author(s):  
Aleksey O. Bezzubikov
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
The Self ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Fourth Part ◽  
The World ◽  
The Moment

The article provides the analysis of mytho­logical dimension of the film “Ilych’s Gate” (Zastava Ilycha) by M.M. Khutsiev. The author concludes that the text of this film represents self-reflexive structure. Firstly, the plot of the film quite clearly depicts the mythological perception of reality. Secondly, the course of narration reproduces the influence of mytho­logical codes on the perception of the audience. The text of the film contains a description of its own mechanism of influence on the viewer as well as the processes taking place in the minds of the audience at the moment of viewing.The first part informs of the main principles of mytho­logical thinking and the idea of time and space in the myth, referring to the works by C. Lévi-Strauss, R. Barthes, M. Eliade, A. Losev, E. Cassirer and others. Special attention is paid to the role of myth and initiation ritual in the psychological formation of a personality, as, based on the following, this is the theme that forms the basis of the film plot.The second part deals with the methods by which the mythological dimension is manifested in the text of the film.In the third part, the researcher shows how the contrast of secular and sacral becomes the main semantic opposition promoting the motion of the plot.In the fourth part, the author proves that the reflection of reality in the characters’ minds is a referent of the images shown on the screen. The characters’ development lies in the actualization of the sacral and mythological perception of the world. In turn, the cultural codes contained in the text of the film are designed to evoke a kind of response in the minds of the audience — to actualize the same sacred modus of perception in its ideas, the achievement of which is the ultimate goal of the characters. Thus, the inner path of the characters in the film reflects the processes that excite the studied film in the perception of the audience.The relevance of the article lies in the discovery and description of the principle of self-reflection in the structure of the film “Ilych’s Gate”, which allows us to understand at a qualitatively new level its structure and place in the historical development of Russian cinematography.

scholarly journals Topology of narrative in the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin

2021 ◽  
pp. 214-232
Author(s):  
Radovan Popović
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Philosophical Foundation ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The World ◽  
Classical Philosophy ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Poetic Work ◽  
Friedrich Hölderlin

Significance and peculiarity of the appearance and influence that Friedrich Hölderlin had with his poetic work, both on the whole thematic-motive structure of later poetry (indications of this turn were already present in theoretical form with Diderot, but completely deprived of their true poetic articulation until Lamartine), as well as the character of the philosophical foundation of the new dialectical reversal of thought, brought by German classical philosophy, are thematised in this paper as an organically consistent and continuous process within the framework of the indicated problem, from attempts to enter the world of Hellenism, as a fundamental source of creative unity of poetry and reality, thought and action, battle and truth, to the disappointment in the possibility of objectifying the poetic experience into a coherent basis for reconciling the contradictions of the then social and political situation, which was expressed in the existential gap between alienated everyday life and his spiritual essence, which, in the end, led to Hölderlin's insight into the futility of his own poetic testimony and the role of poetry as a harbinger of the oncoming deduction-out-of-the-oblivion of the being of the existent in its original unity.

scholarly journals White and Minority Demographic Shifts, Intergroup Threat, and Right-Wing Extremism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Hui Bai ◽  
Christopher Federico
Keyword(s):  
Population Decline ◽  
Zero Order ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
White Population ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Intergroup Threat ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
Right Wing Extremism

We present four studies (one correlational and three experimental) of American Whites that examine relationships between White and minority demographic shifts, intergroup threat, and support for extreme-right groups and actions. We focus in particular on the role of collective existential threat (i.e., a perception that the ingroup will cease to exist), along with three alternative/competing intergroup threats: status threat, symbolic threat, prototypicality threat. Though no zero-order relationship was found between perceived White population decline and far-right variables, we find evidence that (1) perceived White population decline leads to collective existential threat net of other perceived demographic shifts, (2) collective existential threat is related to far-right support net of other threats, and (3) perceived White decline has a robust indirect relationship with measures of far-right support via collective existential threat.

scholarly journals «ТРИ ОНТОЛОГІЧНІ ВИМІРИ ТІЛА» Ж.-П. САРТРА В КОНТЕКСТІ СОМАТИЧНОЇ ПРОБЛЕМАТИКИ СУЧАСНОГО ГУМАНІТАРНОГО ДИСКУРСУ

2019 ◽  
pp. 66-70
Author(s):  
Maryna Volodymyrivna Olkhovyk
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Target Setting ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The World

The urgency of the research resulted from the need for a comprehensive analysis of all dimensions of personal somatic existence, its structural changes and variability, possible transformations and functioning within the information society, and, consequently, determining the role of body in the latest social tendencies. Target setting. The paper reveals the main aspects of somatic issues and the "theory of the body for the Other" suggested by J. P. Sartre in one of his main works "Being and Nothingness". To achieve this goal the theoretical and methodological foundations of somatic issues in the scientific discourse of the 20th - early 21st centuries have been studied. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. E. Husserl, J. Lacan, M. Merleau-Ponty, J. P. Sartre, Z. Freud, representatives of surrealism (J. Bataille, A. Arto), French poststructuralism (R. Barth, J. Deleuze, F. Guattari, J. Baudrillard, M. Foucault) and studies by M. Bakhtin, Y. Lotman, A. Losev had a significant influence on the understanding of the body as a cultural universal. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Examining the originality of Sartre's ideas about the body and "body-for-the-Other", the peculiarities of the existential understanding of a man, especially his body characteristics, have been determined. The analysis of the work "Being and Nothingness" makes it possible to study the theory of "body-for-the-Other," its components, to clarify three ontological dimensions of the body and the relations with others as basic in Sartre's philosophy. The research objective. To reveal the main aspects of the somatic problems of J.P. Sartre's “theory of the body for the Other”, suggested by him in one of the major works “Being and Nothingness” and explore the further transformation of the concept of the Other in its bodily aspects in the context of the problem of identity. The statement of basic materials. The category of the Other is peculiar because with its help Sartre explains the existence of a man. The existence of the Other must be recognized as an inviolable fact. And this is what allows a person to discover their own existence. As a result, a person finds themselves not as a subject who knows, but as a certain state (shame, pride, fear, nausea), as actual existence. And it is impossible to find this existence in oneself only by means of the Other. By alienating a person's abilities and capabilities, the other makes self-reflection possible - the person (I) finds these states and tries to objectify them again. Objectification, the appropriation of a person's own capabilities and abilities is empirically carried out by the relation of bodies. The body of the other, allowing the man to open his body, organizes the world in a certain order. Therefore, Sartre's body, both mine and the body of the other, is the value of meaning. Conclusions. These studies laid the foundation for the tradition of analyzing the phenomenon of the Other, which has become central to the postmodern tradition. The paper reveals the features of the influence of the above ideas on the socio-cultural space, in particular on the example of the problem of identity and the theory of the Other.

scholarly journals Determinants of Discriminatory Attitudes Based on External Signs and Manifestations

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-179
Author(s):  
R.M. Shamionov
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Social Dominance ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Short Version ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Unusual Behavior ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
The World ◽  
Source Of Information

External signs and manifestations of the Other are the most important source of information on the basis of which social and cognitive processes are launched, as a result of which their place in the system of representations of the world is established. Despite the efforts made by the society to eliminate discriminatory attitudes, their number does not decrease. Therefore, the study of the determinants of discriminatory attitudes based on the external manifestations of another does not lose its relevance. The purpose of the study is to identify the role of values and focus on authoritarianism and social dominance in variations of discriminatory attitudes based on external signs and manifestations of Another. The study involved 217 people, average age M = 28.9; SD = 11.2 (men-36%).We used a questionnaire for fixing socio-demographic characteristics, and original scales for evaluating discriminatory attitudes. The expression of values was determined using the Schwartz method (2012). To assess right-wing authoritarianism, which reflects the motivation and attitudes to maintain social cohesion, order, stability, and collective security, a short version of the Dakkit’s questioner developed by D. S. Grigoriev (2017) was used. It is shown that the person’s manifestation that causes the strongest rejection is unusual behavior, as well as emotional manifestations, and the sign of skin color was the least irritating factor. The values of tradition, social security, and reputation contribute to the manifestation of discriminatory attitudes on external grounds, and the values of independence-thoughts, independence-actions, universalism-tolerance, and universalism-concern for nature-undermine them. On the basis of structural modeling, the directions of relations from values to discriminatory attitudes are established directly and indirectly, through an assessment of the rejection of representatives of discriminated groups in various spheres of life and the ideological installation of right-wing authoritarianism.

scholarly journals Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Atari ◽  
Aida Mostafazadeh Davani ◽  
Drew Kogon ◽  
Brendan Kennedy ◽  
Nripsuta Ani Saxena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The World ◽  
Identity Fusion

Online radicalization is among the most vexing challenges the world faces today. Here, we demonstrate that homogeneity in moral concerns results in increased levels of radical intentions. In Study 1, we find that in Gab – a right-wing extremist network – the degree of moral convergence within a cluster, predicts the number of hate-speech messages members post. In Study 2, we replicate this effect in another extremist network; Incels. In Study 3 (N = 333), we demonstrate that experimentally leading people to believe that others in their group share their moral views increases their radical intentions. Study 4 (N = 510) replicates this effect in a stratified representative sample, and finds that this causal link may be explained by the degree to which individuals’ identities are fused with their ingroup. Our findings highlight the role of moral convergence and identity fusion in radicalization, emphasizing the need for diversity of moral worldviews within social networks.

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