New Populism, New Conspiracism, and the Old Rhetoric of Purity

Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21St Century (2023)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This entry investigates the connections between neo-populism and neo-conspiracism in the USA. One central thread is the rhetoric of purity that fosters rigid dichotomies of thought about identities, contributing to both populism and conspiracism, eliciting a neologism: conspirapopulism.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Is Conspiracism Endogenous to Populism? A Discursive-Theoretical Analysis.G. Markou - 2022 - Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory 25 (2):154–170.
‘Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you’: Populism, political theology and the culturally repugnant other.Thomas Lynch - unknown
Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy?Cas Mudde & Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (eds.) - 2012 - Cambridge University Press.
Populism, Expertise, and Intellectual Autonomy.Allan Hazlett - 2022 - In Gregory Peterson (ed.), Engaging Populism: Democracy and the Intellectual Virtues. Palgrave-Macmillan.
The effect of media populism on racist discourse in New Zealand.Elena Maydell, Keith Tuffin & Eleanor Brittain - 2022 - Critical Discourse Studies 19 (3):309-325.
Populism and the New Politics.P. Piccone & G. Ulmen - 1995 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1995 (103):3-8.
A Comparison of ‘New Institutionalized’ Populism in Venezuela and the USA.Ritchie Savage - 2014 - Constellations 21 (4):518-534.
Anti-populist discourse in Greece and Argentina in the 21st century.G. Markou - 2021 - Journal of Political Ideologies 26 (2):201-219.
Post-foundationalism of Laclau and Oakeshott: Politics of faith, scepticism and populism.Halil Gurhanli - 2014 - Annales Philosophici 7:26-37.
Newman, Chesterton, and the Rhetoric of American Populism.David Pickering - 2021 - Newman Studies Journal 18 (2):47-69.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-11-30

Downloads
105 (#164,909)

6 months
70 (#81,609)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Chris A. Kramer
Santa Barbara City College

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references