The Rise of the Dutch New Right

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: The Dutch swing to the right From New Left to New Right The conservative undercurrent Between Anglo-American conservatism and European populism A 'complex' conservative backlash Structure of the book Notes Chapter 1: Struggling with depoliticization Power and passivity The study of politics as the unmasking of political power Arend Lijphart and the legitimating formula The 1960s and the breakdown of the politics of accommodation The return of consensus critique The return of the conflict model Notes Chapter 2: The rise of the Dutch New Right Anglo-American inspirations Introducing the Anglo-American New Right New Right versus populist radical right From the mainstream to the margins Notes Chapter 3: The neoliberal strand A depoliticized neoliberal turn The Rutten Boys and the political nature of technocracy Right-wing discontent with the reforms of the 1980s Bolkestein and the battle of ideas Moving Dutch liberalism to the right Neoliberalism as a formative influence on Fortuyn and Wilders Notes Chapter 4: The neoconservative strand Leo Strauss and the philosophical inspirations of neoconservatism The Dutch reception of neoconservatism The clash of civilizations thesis Civil religion as a foundation for Dutch identity The cultural contradictions of capitalism New class theory and the assault on the 1960s A failed palace revolution Notes Chapter 5: A complex backlash The Dutch revolt: progressive or conservative? The conservative moment High and low conservatism A complex backlash A situational perspective on conservatism A conservatism 'in the Dutch grain' Pim Fortuyn and the Dutch adaptation Notes Chapter 6: The double life of Ayaan Hirsi Ali Qutb and political Islam Neoconservatism and the clash of civilizations Deconstructing Ayaan The Orientalist lens Stark contradictions Infidel Notes Chapter 7: The dawn of an online counterculture Tendentious, unfounded and needlessly offensive Technological determinism and cultural pessimism Cultural pessimism: 'Boorification' The rhetoric and textuality of GeenStijl Nietzsche for the masses The weaponization of irony Notes Chapter 8: Rebels without a cause Dutch nihilism The meaning of nihilism W.F. Hermans' nihilism Reve and Romantic irony Closing the circle: From Hermans and Reve to Van Gogh and GeenStijl Notes Conclusion: Both a revolt and an echo The contradictory nature of the revolt The discourse of emancipation The notion of progress as the breaking of taboos The critique of Dutch political culture The appeal to accommodation and toleration The adversary culture A politics of ideas Notes Postscript: The next generation – Postscript on Thierry Baudet Formative years Continuity and change Notes Bibliography Index