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082 0 4 _a335.6
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWolin, Richard
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Seduction of Unreason :
_bThe Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism /
_cRichard Wolin.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2004
300 _a1 online resource (400 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tA Note on Giorgio De Chirico's "Song of Love" --
_tIntroduction. Answer to the Question: What is Counter-Enlightenment? --
_tPart I. The German Ideology Revisited --
_t1. Zarathustra Goes To Hollywood: On The Postmodern Reception Of Nietzsche --
_t2. Prometheus Unhinged: C. G. Jung and the Temptations of Aryan Religion --
_t3. Fascism And Hermeneutics: Gadamer and the Ambiguities of "Inner Emigration" --
_tPolitical Excursus I. Incertitudes Allemandes: Reflections On the German New Right --
_tPart II. French Lessons --
_t4. Left Fascism: Georges Bataille and the German Ideology --
_t5. Maurice Blanchot: The Use and Abuse of Silence --
_t6. Down By Law: Deconstruction and the Problem of Justice --
_tPolitical Excursus II. Designer Fascism: On the Ideology of the French New Right --
_tConclusion: "Site of Catastrophe": The Image of America in Modern Thought --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
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520 _aFifteen 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 postmodernism'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. In probing chapters on C. G. Jung, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot, Wolin discovers an unsettling commonality: during the 1930s, these thinkers leaned to the right and were tainted by a proverbial "fascination with fascism." Frustrated by democracy's shortcomings, they were seduced by fascism's grandiose promises of political regeneration. The dictatorships in Italy and Germany promised redemption from the uncertainties of political liberalism. But, from the beginning, there could be no doubting their brutal methods of racism, violence, and imperial conquest. Postmodernism's origins among the profascist literati of the 1930s reveal a dark political patrimony. The unspoken affinities between Counter-Enlightenment and postmodernism constitute the guiding thread of Wolin's suggestive narrative. In their mutual hostility toward reason and democracy, postmodernists and the advocates of Counter-Enlightenment betray a telltale strategic alliance--they cohabit the fraught terrain where far left and far right intersect. Those who take Wolin's conclusions to heart will never view the history of modern thought in quite the same way.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aFascism.
650 0 _aIdeology
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aIdeology.
650 0 _aPHILOSOPHY
_vCriticism.
650 0 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE
_vPolitical Ideologies
_vCommunism &amp
_xSocialism.
650 0 _aPolitical science
_vPhilosophy.
650 0 _aPolitical science
_xPhilosophy.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism.
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