The Seduction of Unreason
Subtitle: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780691114644
Subjects: Fascism & Nazism; Western philosophy; Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism; Ideology; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; History & Theory - Radical Thought; Political; Comparative Literature; European History; Political Philosophy; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism; Criticism; Fascism; Philosophy
First sentence: IN HONOR of the Enlightenment the eighteenth century was commonly known as the century of lumiere, or light.
Description: "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 postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodern's infatuation with fascism has been widespread and not incidental. He calls into question postmodernism's claim to have inherited the mantle of the left - and suggests that postmodern thought has long been smitten with the opposite end of the political spectrum."--Jacket.