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The Seduction of Unreason : The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition /

Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodernism's infatuation with fascism has been e...

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Autor principal: Wolin, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Edición:Second editon.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Giorgio de Chirico's "Song of Love"; INTRODUCTION: Answer to the Question: What Is Counter-Enlightenment?; PART I. THE GERMAN IDEOLOGY REVISITED; 1. Zarathustra Goes to Hollywood: On the Postmodern Reception of Nietzsche; 2. Prometheus Unhinged: C.G. Jung and the Temptations of Aryan Religion; 3. Fascism and Hermeneutics: Gadamer and the Ambiguities of "Inner Emigration"; POLITICAL EXCURSUS I. Incertitudes Allemandes: Reflections on the German New Right; PART II. FRENCH LESSONS
  • 4. Left Fascism: Georges Bataille and the German Ideology5. Maurice Blanchot: The Use and Abuse of Silence; 6. Down by Law: Deconstruction and the Problem of Justice; POLITICAL EXCURSUS II. Designer Fascism: On the Ideology of the French New Right; CONCLUSION: "Site of Catastrophe": The Image of America in Modern Thought; Notes; Index