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“I hadn’t voted for anyone.” Zur Geste politischer Neutralität als ästhetischer Widerstand bei Bret Easton Ellis

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dc.creatorLiese, Lea
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-23T12:44:51Z
dc.date.available2024-10-23T12:44:51Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractUsing Bret Easton Ellis’ nonfictional book White as an example, this article examines how criticism of liberalism is made plausible by the thesis of a culture war in the polarized U.S. society since the election of Donald Trump. In the U.S., identity politics are blamed for this increasing polarization. Thus, Ellis justifies his departure from liberalism with its supposed transformation into left-wing reactionism that places political correctness above freedom of speech and art. In turn, he stages himself as a neutral observer of political events and justifies his supposed objectivity as a condition for political and aesthetic freedom: he wants to be able to empathize with all points of view and regard them as equal. But in this way, he adopts – whether intentionally or not – narratives that the Alt-Right uses strategically to justify right-wing narratives of conversion and to combat progressive liberalism.en
dc.identifier.doi14.28937/9783787346561_6
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23166
dc.identifier.urihttps://meiner-elibrary.de/article/3268/i-hadnt-voted-for-anyone
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/24916
dc.languagedeu
dc.publisherFelix Meiner
dc.publisher.placeHamburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2751-3106
dc.relation.ispartofseriesKulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de
dc.subjectIdentity Politicsen
dc.subjectCulture Waren
dc.subjectAestheticsen
dc.subjectLiberalismen
dc.subjectConservatismen
dc.subject.ddcddc:800
dc.subject.personBret Easton Ellis
dc.title“I hadn’t voted for anyone.” Zur Geste politischer Neutralität als ästhetischer Widerstand bei Bret Easton Ellisde
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local.coverpage2024-10-24T02:34:54
local.source.epage140
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage112
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/119234440
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241583

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