Noëlle Mcafee
Biographic Data
| ID | 382815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noëlle Mcafee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noëlle |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcafee |
| SIGNATURE | MCAFEE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9955-1827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Racists, Fascists, and Other Dejects: Authoritarianism Reconsidered
Covid-19 and the Politics of Fear
Panel on: “Terror at the gates: On psychoanalysis and fascism amnesia”
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author
A reply to Castration anxiety, Covid-19 and the extremist right by Claudia Leeb
s important essay, 'Castration anxiety, COVID-19 and the extremist right' (2021), contributes to our growing understanding of the logics of right-wing populism and conspiracy theories, here as exemplified by former US President Donald Trump's and Austrian politician Norbert Hofer's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.Both Trump and Hofer have portrayed themselves as more powerful than the virus and the virus as nothing to fear, encouraging their f…
Beyond “Populism”: The Psychodynamics of Antipolitical Popular Movements
I argue here that the term “populism” captures too much, including movements that are enthralled by a fantasied ideal as well as genuine movements for plural and popular sovereignty. The term is too often used to deride all popular movements, but this is to the detriment of genuinely political and democratic movements for democratic sovereignty. I distinguish popular movements that are genuinely political and generative from those that are regres…
Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory by Karl Figlio
Reviewed by: Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory by Karl Figlio Noëlle McAfee Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory by Karl Figlio. Essex, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 304 pages. In Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory, Karl Figlio asks how the social group of modern Germany can make reparations for the heinous wrongs of its Nazi past. How can it make amends or poss…
Emancipation, Progress, Critique: Debating Amy Allen’s The End of Progress
Trump and the Paranoid-Schizoid Politics of Ideality
The rise of Trump is in part due to a paranoid-schizoid politics found both in the personality of Trump himself and in a large-scale regression of many in the populace to a more primitive state of denial, splitting, and demonization. The Trump phenomenon shares much with many other nationalist politics on the rise around the world, but mostly an inability to tolerate difference and loss, including loss of a romanticized past or idealized future. …
Neo-liberalism and other political imaginaries
This article looks at how various political cultures and imaginaries occlude the public’s deeply democratic political role, especially the currently reigning anti-political culture of neo-liberalism. Even in an era when millions of people the world over take to the streets in protest, dominant political imaginaries position most of the world’s people as largely powerless. What is needed is a radical political imaginary along the lines that Cornel…
Inner Experience and Worldly Revolt: Arendt’s Bearings on Kristeva’s Project
What is at stake when political revolt depends upon radical inner experience? Is the only route to cultural and political change, as Kristeva seems to argue, through personal introspection and revolt? If we want more from life than the freedom to channel surf, as she says, need the direction of inquiry be primarily inward? Need there be an either/or of psychical versus public life? Is the only answer to social and political dead ends really found…
On Democracy's Epistemic Value
Research Article| January 01 2009 On Democracy's Epistemic Value Noëlle McAfee Noëlle McAfee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2009) 18 (2): 41–47. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711337 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Noëlle McAfee; On Democracy's Epistemic Value. The Good Society 1 January 2009; 18 (2): 41–47. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20711337 Download citation fi…
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. ByWendy Brown
Feminist Engagements in Democratic Theory
Julia Kristeva
One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her ideas on:*semiotics and symbolism*abjection*melancholia*feminism*revolt.McAfee provides clear explanations of the more difficult aspects of Kristeva's theories, helpfully placing her idea…
Julia Kristeva, Ross Guberman. The Ends of Arendtian Politics: A Review of Hannah Arendt Norma Claire Moruzzi. Speaking Through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity and Kimberle…
Public Knowledge
This paper argues that the public can do more than legitimate government; it can provide public knowledge for sound public policy. Critics of democracy worry that the public has too little objectivity and impartiality to know what is best. These critics have a point: taken one by one, people have little knowledge of the whole. For this reason, citizens need to escape the cloisters of kith and kin and enter a world of unlike others. They need to b…
Patricia J. Huntington, Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition: Kristeva, Heidegger, Irigaray. New York, Suny Press, 1998
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Julia Kristeva Interviews
A collection of twenty-two interviews and one personal essay, Julia Kristeva Interviews presents an intimate and accessible portrait of one of France's most important critical thinkers and intellectual personalities
Beyond “Populism”: The Psychodynamics of Antipolitical Popular Movements
I argue here that the term “populism” captures too much, including movements that are enthralled by a fantasied ideal as well as genuine movements for plural and popular sovereignty. The term is too often used to deride all popular movements, but this is to the detriment of genuinely political and democratic movements for democratic sovereignty. I distinguish popular movements that are genuinely political and generative from those that are regres…
Neo-liberalism and other political imaginaries
This article looks at how various political cultures and imaginaries occlude the public’s deeply democratic political role, especially the currently reigning anti-political culture of neo-liberalism. Even in an era when millions of people the world over take to the streets in protest, dominant political imaginaries position most of the world’s people as largely powerless. What is needed is a radical political imaginary along the lines that Cornel…
Emancipation, Progress, Critique: Debating Amy Allen’s The End of Progress
Trump and the Paranoid-Schizoid Politics of Ideality
The rise of Trump is in part due to a paranoid-schizoid politics found both in the personality of Trump himself and in a large-scale regression of many in the populace to a more primitive state of denial, splitting, and demonization. The Trump phenomenon shares much with many other nationalist politics on the rise around the world, but mostly an inability to tolerate difference and loss, including loss of a romanticized past or idealized future. …
Inner Experience and Worldly Revolt: Arendt’s Bearings on Kristeva’s Project
What is at stake when political revolt depends upon radical inner experience? Is the only route to cultural and political change, as Kristeva seems to argue, through personal introspection and revolt? If we want more from life than the freedom to channel surf, as she says, need the direction of inquiry be primarily inward? Need there be an either/or of psychical versus public life? Is the only answer to social and political dead ends really found…
Julia Kristeva Interviews
A collection of twenty-two interviews and one personal essay, Julia Kristeva Interviews presents an intimate and accessible portrait of one of France's most important critical thinkers and intellectual personalities
Patricia J. Huntington, Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition: Kristeva, Heidegger, Irigaray. New York, Suny Press, 1998
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Julia Kristeva
One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her ideas on:*semiotics and symbolism*abjection*melancholia*feminism*revolt.McAfee provides clear explanations of the more difficult aspects of Kristeva's theories, helpfully placing her idea…
Julia Kristeva, Ross Guberman. The Ends of Arendtian Politics: A Review of Hannah Arendt Norma Claire Moruzzi. Speaking Through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity and Kimberle…
Public Knowledge
This paper argues that the public can do more than legitimate government; it can provide public knowledge for sound public policy. Critics of democracy worry that the public has too little objectivity and impartiality to know what is best. These critics have a point: taken one by one, people have little knowledge of the whole. For this reason, citizens need to escape the cloisters of kith and kin and enter a world of unlike others. They need to b…
Feminist Engagements in Democratic Theory
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. ByWendy Brown
On Democracy's Epistemic Value
Research Article| January 01 2009 On Democracy's Epistemic Value Noëlle McAfee Noëlle McAfee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2009) 18 (2): 41–47. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711337 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Noëlle McAfee; On Democracy's Epistemic Value. The Good Society 1 January 2009; 18 (2): 41–47. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20711337 Download citation fi…
Inner Experience and Worldly Revolt: Arendt’s Bearings on Kristeva’s Project
What is at stake when political revolt depends upon radical inner experience? Is the only route to cultural and political change, as Kristeva seems to argue, through personal introspection and revolt? If we want more from life than the freedom to channel surf, as she says, need the direction of inquiry be primarily inward? Need there be an either/or of psychical versus public life? Is the only answer to social and political dead ends really found…
Trump and the Paranoid-Schizoid Politics of Ideality
The rise of Trump is in part due to a paranoid-schizoid politics found both in the personality of Trump himself and in a large-scale regression of many in the populace to a more primitive state of denial, splitting, and demonization. The Trump phenomenon shares much with many other nationalist politics on the rise around the world, but mostly an inability to tolerate difference and loss, including loss of a romanticized past or idealized future. …
Neo-liberalism and other political imaginaries
This article looks at how various political cultures and imaginaries occlude the public’s deeply democratic political role, especially the currently reigning anti-political culture of neo-liberalism. Even in an era when millions of people the world over take to the streets in protest, dominant political imaginaries position most of the world’s people as largely powerless. What is needed is a radical political imaginary along the lines that Cornel…
Emancipation, Progress, Critique: Debating Amy Allen’s The End of Progress
Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory by Karl Figlio
Reviewed by: Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory by Karl Figlio Noëlle McAfee Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory by Karl Figlio. Essex, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 304 pages. In Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory, Karl Figlio asks how the social group of modern Germany can make reparations for the heinous wrongs of its Nazi past. How can it make amends or poss…
A reply to Castration anxiety, Covid-19 and the extremist right by Claudia Leeb
s important essay, 'Castration anxiety, COVID-19 and the extremist right' (2021), contributes to our growing understanding of the logics of right-wing populism and conspiracy theories, here as exemplified by former US President Donald Trump's and Austrian politician Norbert Hofer's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.Both Trump and Hofer have portrayed themselves as more powerful than the virus and the virus as nothing to fear, encouraging their f…
Beyond “Populism”: The Psychodynamics of Antipolitical Popular Movements
I argue here that the term “populism” captures too much, including movements that are enthralled by a fantasied ideal as well as genuine movements for plural and popular sovereignty. The term is too often used to deride all popular movements, but this is to the detriment of genuinely political and democratic movements for democratic sovereignty. I distinguish popular movements that are genuinely political and generative from those that are regres…
Panel on: “Terror at the gates: On psychoanalysis and fascism amnesia”
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author
Covid-19 and the Politics of Fear
Racists, Fascists, and Other Dejects: Authoritarianism Reconsidered
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