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The ideology of tyranny : Bataille, Foucault, and the postmodern corruption of political dissent /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Preparata, Guido Giacomo
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Opposition (Political science)
Political correctness.
Dissenters.
Postmodernism.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
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Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • 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.