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The paper reflects on recent developments towards authoritarianism and   right-wing populism that have become apparent in a number of Western   societies and aims at pinpointing possible cultural foundations for this   trend. Using the example of the German PEGIDA movement and the wider milieu   in which it is embedded, it identifies and describes a rapidly spreading   culture of mistrust and discusses some of its political and epistemological   implications. In a second step, the paper draws on Luc Boltanski’s theory of   justification in order to attain a better understanding of this political   movement’s specificities. It is argued that it is a quasi-violent refusal of   justification which is constitutive for the movement in question, thereby   transcending the reach of Boltanski’s framework to some extent. In a third   step, a closer look is taken at the epistemological paradox that results   from the fact that a number of the PEGIDA movement’s crucial points of   criticism are effectively shared by a larger part of the overall population,   raising severe problems for the question of sociological critique. The paper   utilizes ideas by Bruno Latour in order to illuminate this paradox further   and examine its consequences. It closes with remarks on the possibility to   “reassemble” trust and critique as crucial but contested - and, hence,   precarious - foundations of modern society

The precarity of critique: Cultures of mistrust and the refusal of justification