Support for authoritarianism after 9- 1: authoritarianism construct still used?

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sun May 5 09:23:26 PDT 2002


Nope. The F scale still has it's supporters. See, "Right-Wing Authoritarianism, " by Robert A. Altemeyer. The classic Rightist academic trashing of Adorno et. al. was by Edward A. Shils in the 50's.

A few

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google on shils adorno... http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Baker/F&N/Semtop2/t2-13.htm Fascism and Nazism in Theory and Practice E. A. Shils: ‘Authoritarianism “Right” and “Left”, in Studies in the Scope and Method of the Authoritarian Personality, (ed) R. Christie and M. Jahoda. Westport : Greenwood Press, 1981

The treason of the intellectuals and "the undoing of thought" by ... ... The diatribe that Horkheimer and Adorno mounted against the concept of ... ideas. But as the sociologist Edward Shils has noted, although the Enlightenment ... www.newcriterion.com/archive/11/dec92/treason.htm Michael Pugliese



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