/533/ Reading Club: Illiberalism?

On "thin ideologies" in a postmodern age.

The Reading Club kicks off with an exploration of illiberalism, a "new ideological universe" that exists in "a permanent situational relation to liberalism."

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• What are examples of this backlash against liberalism?

• How is illiberalism different from populism, conservatism, or the far right?

• What is a thin versus a thick ideology? Are we condemned to a 21st century of only thin ideologies?

• Is 'illiberalism' a useful term to describe what is going on in politics today?

• Is liberalism versus illiberalism just a terminal culture war?

Links:

• Illiberalism: a conceptual introduction, Marlene Laruelle, East European Politics (2022)

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