{"product_id":"neo-nazi-postmodern","title":"Neo-Nazi Postmodern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the violent skinhead protests of the early 1990s to the National Socialist Underground murder spree of the 2000s and the KSK (\u003ci\u003eKommando Spezialkräfte\u003c\/i\u003e) scandal of 2020, this book traces Germany's long struggle to suppress a resurgent and ever more terroristic far-right scene.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEsther Elizabeth Adaire analyses the electoral success of the AfD (\u003ci\u003eAlternative für Deutschland\u003c\/i\u003e) party in 2017, the growing presence of PEGIDA on German streets, and the anti-COVID lockdown protests led by conspiracy theorist groups such as \u003ci\u003eQuerdenken\u003c\/i\u003e which have taken aback liberal onlookers for whom Germany's robust culture of Holocaust consciousness is supposed to provide a panacea against neo-Nazism. Adaire examines how, since unification, the intellectual \u003ci\u003eNeue Rechte\u003c\/i\u003e has increasingly destabilized the foundations of historical memory and lesson-learning in Germany, often doing so in the pages of mainstream conservative publications. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeo-Nazi Postmodern\u003c\/i\u003e convincingly contends that far-right intellectuals - joined by notable left-wing apostates who brought with them an anti-establishment critique borrowed from the language of postmodernism - have since the early 1990s excused and justified an increasingly violent far-right youth scene, even becoming leaders of this scene themselves. The book therefore traces the development of today's German far-right throughout several stages, notable scandals, and the ongoing destabilization of memory and truth from unification onwards, showing how previously disparate groups such as neo-Nazis, \u003ci\u003eNeue Rechte \u003c\/i\u003eintellectuals, and political fringe parties merged over time. This far-right scene, Adaire adeptly demonstrates, has come to embody what the historian Walter Laqueur once dubbed 'Postmodern Terrorism': a mixture of cell-based terror structures, reliance on Internet technologies for organizational purposes, and the sowing of epistemic chaos via informational warfare.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833531085005,"sku":"9781350417120","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_87dcde63-70cb-46d0-900c-1e661f681e12.jpg?v=1790887536","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/neo-nazi-postmodern","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}