According to Carolin Amlinger and Oliver Nachtwey, libertarian authoritarianism is a consequence of the promises of freedom of late modernity: the individual is supposed to be mature, authentic and highly responsible.
At the same time, he experiences himself as increasingly powerless and without influence in the face of an increasingly complex world. This is experienced as an affront and manifests itself in resentment and hostility toward democracy.
On the basis of numerous case studies, Amlinger and Nachtwey give this social figure contour. They explain the social reasons that led to a change in the authoritarian character as still imagined by critical theory. Late modernity produces a type of Protest whose call for individual sovereignty is a threat to a society of the free and the equal: the denial of a Shared Reality. No. 1 on the nonfiction bestseller list for November 2022
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AMLINGER, Carolin and NACHTWEY, Oliver, 2022. Gekränkte Freiheit: Aspekte des libertären Autoritarismus. Berlin: Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3-518-43071-2.