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Agon und Desengagement. Über liberale Mimikry und linkes Renegatentum
Kruschwitz, Hans (2023) , S. 147-197
This article describes the liberal mimicry of the New Right and the attitude of disengagement that springs from it as an essential point of contact for leftist renegades. Using the example of a volume of stories by the writer Botho Strauß, who was originally considered more of a leftist, he shows how important set pieces of this attitude – from the rejection of the concept of progress to the pose of the aestheticist spectator – recur in his work. In addition, he outlines the extent to which Strauß’ ›aesthetic mobilization‹ against the alleged ›left-wing mainstream‹ was inspired by the latter’s reception of Foucault – and the extent to which Foucault can thus be understood as a ›bridge-builder‹ between right and left, even if he himself was not a right-winger and can hardly be claimed by the New Right.
Konversionserzählungen. Vergangenheit und Gegenwart literarisch-politischer Überläufergeschichten
Amlinger, Carolin; Gess, Nicola; Liese, Lea (2023) , S. 6-12
Retroverser Fortschritt. Rückkehr, Konversion und sozialer Wandel
Amlinger, Carolin (2023) , S. 64-84
Beginning with the trend toward first-person narrative perspectives in contemporary literature, this article examines the ways in which crisis-ridden presences are narrated in narratives of return. The focus is on how conversion narratives articulate a collectively shared experience of social change. Autosociobiographical novels open with a threshold narrative that follows the logic and structure of classic conversion narratives. The tripartite narrative structure of autobiographical conversion narratives, in which a turning point separates the life course into a wrong life before conversion and a right one after conversion, is used in the novels as a time-diagnostic tool to render a diffuse social threshold state representable.
Von der “Utopie” zur “Wirklichkeit”. Biografische und gesellschaftliche Konversionsnarrative rechter Renegaten
Schilk, Felix (2023) , S. 142-173
Right-wing renegades usually base their political lives on a conversion experience. In this article, I take a dual perspective on such conversions. On the one hand, I show how political conversions from ›left‹ to ›right‹ are narratively constructed in biographical retrospect and argue that an apocalyptic structure of the conversion narrative enables the political change of side. On the other hand, I analyse time-diagnostic narratives formulated by right-wing renegades and argue that the worldviews of renegades often feature dichotomously structured narratives of diremption and decadence that have stood the political change of sides. Identifying these narratives can prove to be a heuristic for testing the ideology of political movements for their susceptibility to conversion narratives and a potential drift to the political right.

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