Forms of Hatred : : The Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature / / Leonidas Donskis.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 145
• VerfasserIn: Donskis, Leonidas
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 145.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 pages)

This book analyzes such symbolic designs of the modern troubled imagination as the conspiracy theory of society, deterministic concepts of identity and order, antisemitic obsessions, self-hatred, and the myth of the loss of roots. It offers, among other things, the unique East-Central European materials incorporated in a broad, imaginative synthesis and critique of contemporary social analysis.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Timo Airaksinen -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 The Making and Unmaking of Enemies: Evil and the Troubled Imagination -- ONE The Conspiracy Theory of Society: From Sir John Mandeville to the Modern Troubled Imagination -- TWO Transferred Loyalties, Fabricated Identities, and Organized Hatred: The Politics of True Believers vs. the Literature of Skeptics -- PART 2 The Uncertainties of Modernity: Ambivalence and the Troubled Identity -- THREE Alternative Modernity? Marxism, Modern Ideocracy, and the Secular Church -- FOUR Modernity and the Loss of Roots, or Two Modes of Being of the Troubled Identity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.