The Ideology of Tyranny
Subtitle: Bataille, Foucault, and the Postmodern Corruption of Political Dissent
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781403982773
Subjects: Political control & influence; Political science & theory; Political Discontent And Violence; Political Theory; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General; Political; Political Ideologies - General; Dissenters; Opposition (Political science); Political correctness
Description: 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.