Investigating the Alt Right: Richard Spencer in America: 2018 Edition

By Marcus Verhaegh

A book summary is included, along with consideration of recent developments in the 'alt right' world. The Afterword addresses the logic of media attempts to reject 'alt right' politics by dismissing the reality of demographic change. Further the escalating apocalyptic elements of the world-scene are shown to more firmly doom, the viability of Richard Spencer's political leadership. The work will appeal to readers interested in philosophy, epistemology, politics, political science, and/or other social sciences. //What is the 'alt right' or 'alternative right'? Today there is much discussion of a new 'alt right' philosophy, but how new is this movement? And is it very philosophical? It develops that various figures in white nationalist movements are key to the concept of the 'alt right, ' including Richard Spencer, Kevin MacDonald, and Jared Taylor. However, investigation soon makes clear that Spencer stands above all others as central to the movement. But who is this individual, and also then what is the role in the movement of his wife, a Russian Heidegger scholar? Above all else - why has Spencer jumped to the fore of media attention, such that he is now linked with the White House Chief strategist, Steve Bannon? The world of the alt right is a shadowy one, but soon it emerges, something even darker is happening in the newsrooms paid to report upon it, where it is no longer clear whether they have contact with reality or only Nazi illusion. One tries to investigate the alt right but in discussing the alt right, the press makes the main story - itself and its prejudices. The alt right's interest in the philosophy of Husserl and Heidegger provides a Leitfaden for unfolding this disturbing situation, taking us to the inescapable question: do reporter and reader share the same world? Reporters offer their supposed experiences of the alt right, but a phenomenological analysis of this reveals, the phenomena have an uncertain relation to objectivity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 171714375X
• ISBN13: 9781717143754
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"