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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Epigram -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Collection: A Study of Right-Wing Extremism -- 2. The American Far-Right: Historically and Sociologically -- 3. Christian Dominionism and Its Critics -- Interlude 1: Fetus Fetish -- 4. Christian Dominionism and Violence -- 5. The Big Lie: Its Model, Making, and Motive -- 6. The Danse Macabre: Deadly Miscommunications -- Interlude 2: God and Guns -- 7. The Case of the Minor Family -- 8. Revisiting Authoritarianism -- 9. "Fascism" Reconsidered -- References -- Index.

Racism, collective violence, sickness, environmental catastrophe, body obsession, greed, and accelerated life concern everyone. In this book, however, they are not viewed as social problems to be solved by technical experts. Instead, they are viewed as products of the joint transference of aspects of ourselves onto objects independent of ourselves. More specifically, they emerge from conviction there is something "out there" that can complete us, secure us, fill us, stabilize us, or in some other way enable us to escape from or deny our "lack": our existential precariousness or death.

This article traces the roots of the Authoritarian Personality (AP) project in the neo-Freudian/phenomenological tradition of the Frankfurt School (FS). It focuses on three of its major proponents (Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse) and examines the construction of the F-scale. It outlines how, according to FS-influenced scholars, the AP arose from the disciplinary measures inflicted on late 19th and early 20th century German middle-class youth, and details the sado-masochistic political style of the prototypical AP. It covers the critical reception of this characterization and explanation of authoritarianism by Bob Altemeyer and Anglo-American positivism. It concludes by arguing that in overlooking the inner life of the AP, positivism blinds us to compelling truths, about authoritarianism, and also about ourselves.

This is a critical phenomenology of the latest iteration of the Christian Right: Dominionism. A brief history of the movement first situates Dominionism in the American religious landscape. The article then details eight of its political-economic objectives, followed by an account of its heroic action orientation. The article concludes with a critique of Dominionism, coupled with observations on its likely fate.