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(Non-)dominating fear: Analyzing the right-wing populist movement Pegida with neo-Kantian republicanism

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This article considers the neo-Kantian republican account of (non-)dominating fear (1) to diagnose the fear-based legitimation narratives of today’s right-wing populist East German movement Pegida (‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West’); (2) to provide a progressive, enlightened standpoint on these narratives in terms of fear-based noumenal power, for example, the fear-based legitimation narratives of Wutbürger (citizens of anger) and (3) to present courageous citizen juries as a republican innovation which is needed to contest the right-wing populist fear-based legitimation narratives by generating enlightened deterrence. Becoming such a political agent of courageous citizen juries is the first demand for justice and not an instrumental means-end relation, as could be imagined in the light of present-day neo-republican thought (Pettit).

Source: Philosophy & Social Criticism

DOI: 10.1177/01914537251334546

Author: Sarah Bianchi

Institution: Goethe University Frankfurt

Language: English

Topic: Political Theory and Democracy

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,650