The Far-Right, Education and Violence

An Educational Philosophy Reader Volume IX

Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000200287
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

In the last decade the far-right, associated with white nationalism, identitarian politics, and nativist ideologies, has established itself as a major political force in the West, making substantial electoral gains across Europe, the USA, and Latin America, and coalescing with the populist movements of Trump, Brexit, and Boris Johnson's 2019 election in the UK. This political shift represents a major new political force in the West that has rolled back the liberal internationalism that developed after WWI and shaped world institutions, globalization, and neoliberalism. It has also impacted upon the democracies of the West. Its historical origins date from the rise of fascism in Italy, Germany, and Austria from the 1920s. In broad philosophical terms, the movement can be conceived as a reaction against the rationalism and individualism of liberal democratic societies, and a political revolt based on the philosophies of Nietzsche, Darwin, and Bergson that purportedly embraced irrationalism, subjectivism, and vitalism. This edited collection of essays by Michael A Peters and Tina Besley, taken from the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory, provides a philosophical discussion of the rise of the far-right and uses it as a canvas to understand the return of fascism, white supremacism, acts of terrorism, and related events, including the refugee crisis, the rise of authoritarian populism, the crisis of international education, and Trump's 'end of globalism'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Previously published chapters
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• 1 National populism and the rise of the far-right—‘bad Nietzsche rising’ and the ‘fascism in our heads’
• 2 ‘The fascism in our heads’: Reich, Fromm, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari—the social pathology of fascism in the twenty-first century
• 3 The return of fascism: Youth, violence, and nationalism
• 4 The unforeseen: Education and the flowers of sacrifice
• 5 White supremacism: The tragedy of Charlottesville
• 6 Terrorism, trauma, tolerance: Bearing witness to white supremacist attack on Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand
• 7 The refugee camp as the biopolitical paradigm of the West
• 8 The refugee crisis and the right to political asylum
• 9 The end of neoliberal globalization and the rise of authoritarian populism
• 10 Trump’s nationalism, ‘the end of globalism’, and ‘the age of patriotism’ ‘The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots’
• 11 The crisis of international education
• 12 The failure of liberalism and liberal education
• Index