Description: First published as "Gekrèankte Freiheit: Aspekte des libertèaren Autoritarismus" by Suhrkamp Verlag, 2022.
Review Quotes: "This is a truly remarkable work. The authors expand an initial interest in anti-vax protesters into a highly insightful and comprehensive study of almost all that is strange and paradoxical about the contemporary world. They trace the way in which the Enlightenment idea of freedom as something expansive and life-affirming has become distorted into the anti-social, paranoid idea of the sovereign individual fighting against everyone around them."
Colin Crouch, University of Warwick
"In this brilliant study, Amlinger and Nachtwey have merged an impressive empirical undertaking with considerable theoretical boldness. Their explication of "libertarian authoritarianism" makes new sense of our puzzling historical moment, and will change the way you think about contemporary politics in many countries."
Adrian Daub, Stanford University