The new inquisitions : heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism /

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'The New Inquisitions' begins with early Christianity, and traces heretic-hunting as a phenomenon through the middle ages and right into the 20th century, showing how the same inquisitional modes of thought recur both on the political Left and on the political Right.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Versluis, Arthur, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Totalitarianism.
Totalitarisme.
totalitarianism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Totalitarianism
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : heresy
  • Heresy and the inquisition
  • Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind
  • The archetypal inquisition
  • Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition
  • Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state
  • Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism
  • Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras : the nationalist substitute for Catholicism
  • The secularization of heresiophobia
  • Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and totalitarianism
  • Carl Schmitt and early modern Western esotericism
  • Carl Schmitt and gnosticism
  • Communism and the heresy of religion
  • Eric Voegelin, anti-gnosticism, and the totalitarian emphasis on order
  • The rhetoric of anti-gnosticism
  • Voegelinian inquisitors
  • Norman Cohn and the pursuit of heretics
  • The inner demons of Europe once again
  • Theodor Adorno and the "occult"
  • Another long, strange trip
  • That old bugaboo, "gnosticism," yet again
  • An epidemic of evil!
  • Digital revolution
  • High weirdness in the American hinterlands
  • The satanic panic of late-twentieth-century America
  • Illuminatiphobia
  • The Christian illuminati
  • The American state of exception
  • Rendering to the secular arm
  • Berdyaev's insight
  • Dostoevsky revisited
  • Berdyaev on inquisitional psychopathology
  • Totalitarianism of the left and of the right
  • The betrayal of humanity
  • It can happen here
  • Conclusion : disorder as order
  • Böhme's metaphysics of evil
  • Ideocracy's consequences
  • Heresy and history
  • The ubiquity of ideopathology
  • Mysticism and Plato's cave.

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