G. Preparata

The Ideology of Tyranny

Bataille, Foucault, and the Postmodern Corruption of Political Dissent

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-8277-3
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 257
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 168mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781403982773
• ISBN-10: 1403982775
• Artikelnr.: 24543405

Autorenporträt

GUIDO GIACOMO PREPARATA Associate Professor at the University of Washington, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface A Genealogy of Postmodernism The Great Mother and Dionysus Gnostic Fragments The Marquis de Sade: A Liberal Father to Them All Bataille Michel Foucault and the Social Science-Fiction of Neo-Gnosticism The 'Mocking Varlets' of the Postmodern Left The Tomb Raiders of the Postmodern Right: Junger's Anarch, the Neocon, and the Bogus Hermeneutics of Leo Strauss True Power: The End of Dissent, Iran/Iraq, and the War on Terror

Rezensionen

' The Ideology of Tyranny exposes a bankrupt mode of thought, clearing the way for a re-invigorated philosophy and social science of unembarrassed fealty to centrality and truth. What's more, it is an entertaining read, thoroughly unpretentious, jargon-free, and marked by scintillating argument. Preparata makes a compelling, unique and truly remarkable contribution to our understanding of postmodernism, and especially Foucault.' - David MacGregor, Professor of Sociology at King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada, and author of The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx