The new inquisitions
Subtitle: heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism
By: Arthur Versluis.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780195306378
Subjects: Totalitarianism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : heresy; title: Heresy and the inquisition; title: Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind; title: The archetypal inquisition; title: Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition; title: Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state; title: Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism; title: Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras : the nationalist substitute for Catholicism; title: The secularization of heresiophobia; title: Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and totalitarianism; title: Carl Schmitt and early modern Western esotericism; title: Carl Schmitt and gnosticism; title: Communism and the heresy of religion; title: Eric Voegelin, antignosticism, and the totalitarian emphasis on order; title: The rhetoric of antignosticism; title: Voegelinian inquisitors; title: Norman Cohn and the pursuit of heretics; title: The inner demons of Europe once again; title: Theodor Adorno and the "occult"; title: Another long, strange trip; title: That old bugaboo, 'gnosticism,' yet again; title: An epidemic of evil!; title: Digital revolution; title: High weirdness in the American hinterlands; title: The satanic panic of late twentieth century America; title: Illuminatiphobia; title: The Christian illuminati; title: The American state of exception; title: Rendering to the secular arm; title: Berdyaev's insight; title: Dostoevsky revisited; title: Berdyaev on inquisitional psychopathology; title: Totalitarianism of the left and of the right; title: The betrayal of humanity; title: It can happen here; title: Conclusion : disorder as order; title: Böhme's metaphysics of evil; title: Ideocracy's consequences; title: Heresy and history; title: The ubiquity of ideopathology; title: Mysticism and Plato's cave.