What's the Deal?Trump,Fichte's Closed Commercial State,and the Perverse Dialectic of Neoliberal Risk
作者机构:Underwood International CollegeYonsei University50 Yonsei-roSeodaemun-guSeoul 03722Republic of Korea
出 版 物:《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》 (复旦人文社会科学论丛(英文版))
年 卷 期:2020年第13卷第3期
页 面:395-412页
学科分类:0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 0502[文学-外国语言文学] 1301[艺术学-艺术学理论] 0101[哲学-哲学] 06[历史学]
主 题:Donald Trump US politics Johann Gottlieb Fichte Neoliberalism Fascism Economic nationalismh
摘 要:The following paper seeks to understand Donald Trump as a“dialectical imagefor the contradictions of neoliberal ***’s management style,as described in his Art o f the Deal,combines a fetishizing of entrepreneurial risk as a“lifestylewith the insistence that it is not the entrepreneur but his targets who are ultimately exposed to *** suggests that we might understand the elevation of“deal-makingto a lifestyle as a characteristic of modernity that,with neoliberalism,is increasingly coming to the *** a critique of modernity,I further argue,is anticipated by Fichte s Closed Commercial State with its intriguing dialectic of risk.I conclude by arguing that Trump s politics marks the rise of a new,specifically American style of Fascism--one that demands identification not with the state as supra-individual collective,but with an impersonal system governing over individual lives and rendering them precarious.