Fear Eats the Soul: Ruth Wodak's The Politics of Fear

Milos Vec

Fear Eats the Soul: Ruth Wodak's The Politics of Fear

Department of Legal and Constitutional History

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Abstract

Far-right populist politics have arrived in the mainstream. We are now witnessing the shameless normalization of a political discourse built around nationalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, antisemitism and Islamophobia. But what does this change mean? What caused it? And how does far-right populist discourse work? Ruth Wodak’s second edition of her best-selling book the Politics of Fear addresses those questions and offers an updated discussion on “normalization” as well as a whole new chapter exploring the challenges to liberal democracy.

In this commentary originally written for the IWM in Vienna, Miloš Vec reviews Wodak’s second edition of The Politics of Fear.

Original language	German
Place of Publication	Bremen
Media of output	Online
Publication status	Published - 16 Mar 2021

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

505014 Legal history

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