/lit/ - Literature

Jewish

>>14769640
kike trash

>>14769672
Criticisms?

>>14769686
it was written by stupid subversive kikes who want us all to be genderless drones with no beliefs whatsoever because beliefs are for nazis. fuck kikes

Anyone else got thoughts on this book?

>>14769686
>>14769742

Briefly: it's one of classic case studies in bad mid-century social science (a category it shares with other blockbuster works like An American Dilemma and the Kinsey reports) that worked backward from a predetermined conclusion. The book's sponsorship by the American Jewish Congress pretty much demanded that Horkheimer walk back his previous statements about propaganda and prescribe a course of action. The book was one of the pioneers in pathologizing non-liberal attitudes and setting up a highly enlightened liberalism as the exemplar of psychological health. The studies made no pretense of using a representative sample of the US population. One of its main theses is that authoritarian types have repressed feelings of revolt against parental authority, sort of like a dialectical love-hate relationship with the police (hating cops while secretly wishing you were one) which becomes redirected as undue hostility toward outsider groups. To call the book's approach pseudoscientific doesn't even begin to describe it and despite its fairly high citation rate plenty of radical leftists don't take it seriously either.

>>14769836
>love-hate relationship with the police (hating cops while secretly wishing you were one) which becomes redirected as undue hostility toward outsider groups
So this has been proven false by someone?
Seems an honest enough step in attempting to understand why people idolize authoritarianism so much.
What do you think of Hannah Arendt?

>>14769875
Proven false? Kind of begging the question there man, the whole point is it's an unfalsifiable sentiment. Even radical left writers like Lasch who were 110% on board with psychoanalysis saw this book as a bastardization of the discipline.

>>14769954
Is it just too simplified? That I can understand

>>14769640
This edition's probably better.

I found a copy in the free box at a library book sale a while ago. I had hopes of selling it on ebay but no dice, of course I didn't read it.

>>14771096
Why do bugmen like this type of cover""art"" so much?