Forms of Hatred : : The Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature / / Leonidas Donskis.
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 mater...
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| Superior document: | Value Inquiry Book Series ; 145 |
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| 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) |
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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.