| Description |
xxii, 375 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
A Note Giorgio de Chirico's "Song of Love" -- Introduction: Answer to the Question: What Is Counter-Enlightenment? -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. II. French Lessons -- 4. Left Fascism: Georges Bataille and the German Ideology -- 5. 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 |
| Summary |
"Fifteen years ago, revelations about the political misdeeds of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man sent shock waves throughout European and North American intellectual circles. Ever since, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodern's infatuation with fascism has been widespread and not incidental. He calls into question postmodernism's claim to have inherited the mantle of the left - and suggests that postmodern thought has long been smitten with the opposite end of the political spectrum."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-367) and index |
| Subject |
Fascism.
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Ideology.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
2003057955 |
| ISBN |
0691114641 (alk. paper) |
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