The Ideology of Tyranny [electronic resource] : Bataille, Foucault, and the Postmodern Corruption of Political Dissent /
Preparata, G.author.
The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America to the adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted in the Eighties by importing from France the "theories" of philosopher Michel Foucault.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-254) and index.
Introductory : a genealogy of postmodernism -- The great goddess and Dionysus -- Gnostic fragments -- The Marquis de Sade : a liberal father to them all -- Bataille -- Mystique -- The monstrous archons -- Eroticism -- Expenditure -- Power -- Foucault and the social science-fiction of neo-gnosticism -- The "mocking varlets" of the postmodern left : political correctness, education, and empire -- Education and political correctness -- Empire -- The tomb raiders of the postmodern right : Jünger's anarch, the neocon, and the bogus hermeneutics of Leo Strauss -- Jünger's anarch -- Martin the Obscure -- Kojève : the Pierre Menard of postmodernism -- Leo the Squalid -- Neocon -- True power : the end of dissent, Iran/Iraq, and the War on Terror -- Veblen's testament and the end of dissent -- Mr. Foucault goes to Teheran -- Gulf one : the great illusion -- The War on Terror -- Summary and conclusions.
The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America to the adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted in the Eighties by importing from France the "theories" of philosopher Michel Foucault.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Political theory.
World politics.
Europe—Politics and government.
Education.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Political Theory.
Political History.
European Politics.
Popular Science in Education.