HOW FASCISM WORKS

A penetrating exploration of the ideological pillars and mechanisms of fascist politics in the United States and around the globe.

Drawing on history, philosophy, sociology, and critical race theory, this book places our present moment in urgent, alarming context.

It will be a 40,000-word book (approximately 160 pages) offering 10 theses of fascist politics--short chapters with tentative titles: "The Mythic Past", "Propaganda", "Unreality", "Hierarchy", "Victimhood", "Law and Order", "Sexual Anxiety"-- in which Professor Stanley draws from a variety of disciplines and provides concrete examples not just from Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, but also from contemporary Russia, Hungary, Poland, and India, and from throughout the history of United States. Stanley's underlying thesis is that fascist politics and thinking has long been at work in America; it's not a phenomenon that's coming from abroad.

Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE, KNOW HOW and HOW PROPAGANDA WORKS and dozens of articles in the areas of philosophy of language, epistemology, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, social and political philosophy, and public policy. His last book HOW PROPAGANDA WORKS explains the threat that certain kinds of propaganda and ideology pose to liberal democracy. The book won the 2016 PROSE award in the subject area of philosophy and the 2016 Global Discourse award. He contributes regularly to the New York Times and the Stone column, and has written for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Boston Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among many other publications (attached is praise and publicity for HOW PROPAGANDA WORKS).