The Seduction of Unreason : : The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism / / Richard Wolin.

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 postmod...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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 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