Seven Essays on Populism. Paula Biglieri

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Название Seven Essays on Populism
Автор произведения Paula Biglieri
Жанр Афоризмы и цитаты
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      ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4220-8 – hardback

      ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4221-5 – paperback

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Biglieri, Paula, author. | Cadahia, Luciana, 1982- author.

      Title: Seven essays on populism : for a renewed theoretical perspective / Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia ; translated by George Ciccariello-Maher.

      Description: English Edition. | Medford : Polity Press, 2021. | Series: Critical South | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A critical exploration of the meaning and potential of populism in contemporary political thought”-- Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020027959 (print) | LCCN 2020027960 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509542208 (Hardback) | ISBN 9781509542215 (Paperback) | ISBN 9781509542222 (ePub) | ISBN 9781509547029 (Adobe PDF)

      Subjects: LCSH: Populism.

      Classification: LCC JC423 .B53 2021 (print) | LCC JC423 (ebook) | DDC 320.56/62--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020027959

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      Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973) is one of the most prominent representatives of Latin American modernism and one of the most renowned artists in Brazil. Her work Abaporu, 1928, inspired the Anthropophagic Movement in the plastic arts. To learn more: www.tarsiladoamaral.com.br.

      Her work Operários, 1933, is featured on the cover of this book and was created during the social phase of the artist’s work, after she returned from Russia.

       Stand up, you who know how to feel and do not suffer the painful frigidity of academics.

      Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

      Democracies are generally thought to die at the barrel of a gun, in coups and revolutions. These days, however, they are more likely to be strangled slowly in the name of the people.

      The Economist, August 2019

      ... leftist populism is a profound error. It has no chance of matching the populist appeal of the right, and it dangerously validates some of the right’s arguments.

      Tony Blair, The New York Times, March 2017

      There can no longer be any doubt that we are going through a populist moment. The question is whether this populist moment will turn into a populist age – and cast the very survival of liberal democracy in doubt.

      Yascha Mounk, The Guardian, March 2018

       The People vs. Democracy

      Title of Yascha Mounk’s 2018 book

      When populists distinguish between the “people” and the “elite,” they depict each of these groups as homogeneous. Populism is the enemy of pluralism, and thus of modern democracy.

      William Galston, “The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy”1

      This vilification of populism is not unique to the present moment. Rather, Biglieri and Cadahia teach us in this rich and erudite work, populism has always been in disrepute. This is true in Europe where right-wing populism requires no modifier, and left or democratic populism are oxymorons. It is true in the United States, notwithstanding its rich history of populist rebellion against control of local and national government by financial elites. It is true in Latin America, where populism is associated with Peronism and socialism, neoliberalism and Chavismo. Populism, Biglieri and Cadahia remind us, has been disparaged by liberals and Marxists, globalists and institutionalists, social engineers and free-marketeers, oligarchic republicans and egalitarian social democrats, colonial managers and their postcolonial elite successors. It has been charged with deviating from true class struggle, symptomizing mal-development or failure to modernize, expressing social-psychic primitivism or regression to the mob, rebelling against democratic constraints and institutions, assaulting liberal universalism and inclusion, abhorring cosmopolitanism and globalism, and rebuffing expert and technical knowledge.

      A theoretical orientation and apparatus are immensely helpful when undertaking a task of this magnitude. Theory helps to parse the sloppy ways the term has been bandied about, and to diagnose the hyperbole and the metonymic slide between its pejorative associations –“the aesthetically ugly, the morally evil, a lack of civic culture, contempt for institutions, [rife with] demagoguery, and irrationality” (4). Theory permits critical analysis of populism’s identification with historical backwardness and “regression,” revealing the conceits of modernity, modernization theory, and Orientalism on which this identification draws (5). Theory permits an exposé of the philosophical