Critical Theory and the Humanities in the Age of the Alt-Right

Christine M. Battista is Assistant Professor of English at Johnson & Wales University, Denver, USA. She is co-editor of Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies (Palgrave, 2016). She specializes in the environmental humanities, theory and criticism, postcolonial studies, and American literature.Melissa R. Sande is Dean of Humanities at Union County College, USA. Her work has been published in such venues as Quarterly Horse and The Journal of South Texas English Studies. She specializes in American and Caribbean women’s writing, as well as literary theory.

• 1. Introduction: The State of the Humanities and the Age of the Alt-Right.- 2. “For Every Two Steps Forward, it Often Feels like we Take One Step Back”: Foucauldian Historiography and the Current Political Moment.- 3. Cultural Marxism and the Cathedral: Two Alt-Right Perspectives on Critical Theory.- 4. The Right to Anger: Combative Publics.- 5. Herrenvolk Democracy: The Rise of the Alt-Right in Trump’s America.- 6. From NeoReactionary Theory to the Alt-Right.- 7. Skepticism, Relativism, and Identity: The Origins of (Pseudo-)Conservatism.- 8. The Materialist Conception of Fiction.- 9. Liberation Through Oppression: Deleuze’s Minor Literature and Deterritorialized Nationalisms in James Joyce’s Ulysses.- 10. Death by a Thousand Hyperlinks: The Commodification of Communication and Mediated Ideologies.- 11. Critical Race Theory, Transborder Theory, and Code Switching in the Trump Years.- 12. Conclusion: Mining the Past for Usable Futures: The Global Rise of the Alt-Right and the Frankfurt School.