Contradictory Syntheses

Norman Mailer’s Left Conservatism and the Problematic of “Totalitarianism”

Authors

  • Alexandros Mantzaris Author

Keywords:

Left Conservatism, totalitarianism discourse, political ideology and paradox, ideological ambivalence, violence and political theory, Cold War political thought

Abstract

An examination of Mailer’s seemingly paradoxical position of “Left Conservatism” that may have its basis in certain mechanisms contained within the problematic concept of “totalitarianism.”

Author Biography

  • Alexandros Mantzaris

    Alexandros Mantzaris was born in Greece in 1980. He holds a BA (Honors) in English and US Literature from the University of Essex and an MSC in English Literature (Writing and Cultural Politics) from the University of Edinburgh. He has also been awarded a DPhil by the University of Sussex (American Studies Department). The title of his thesis was “Treasonous Fictions: (Re)visions of ‘Totalitarianism’ in the 60s Work of Five American Authors.”

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Published

2026-06-16

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Norris Mailer: A Life in Words

Section

Articles