The ideology of tyranny: the use of neo-gnostic myth in American politics

The ideology of tyranny: the use of neo-gnostic myth in American politics

Preparata, Guido G.

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The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America tothe adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted in the Eighties by importing from France the 'theories' of philosopher Michel Foucault GUIDO GIACOMO PREPARATA Associate Professor at the University of Washington, USA. INDICE: Preface - A Genealogy of Postmodernism - The Great Mother and Dionysus - Gnostic Fragments - The Marquis de Sade: A Liberal Father to Them All -Bataille - Michel Foucault and the Social Science-Fiction of Neo-Gnosticism -The 'Mocking Varlets' of the Postmodern Left - The Tomb Raiders of the Postmodern Right: Junger's Anarch, the Neocon, and the Bogus Hermeneutics of Leo Strauss - True Power: The End of Dissent, Iran/Iraq, and the War on Terror

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-11494-4
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 278
  • Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés