The Seduction of Unreason : : The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition / / Richard Wolin.
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 extens...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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 EXCURSUSI. Incertitudes Allemandes: Reflections on the German New Right
- PART 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
- Notes
- Index