02738nam 22003854a 450 991079585730332120200520144314.097801953456290195345622(MiAaPQ)EBC7038995(CKB)24235120100041(MiAaPQ)EBC273073(Au-PeEL)EBL273073(CaPaEBR)ebr10160627(CaONFJC)MIL84657(OCoLC)79825654(EXLCZ)992423512010004120051102d2006 uy 0engur|||||||||||The new inquisitions[electronic resource] heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism /Arthur VersluisOxford ;New York Oxford University Press2006xii, 190 pIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortes and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barres and Charles Maurras : the nationalist substitute for Catholicism -- The secularization of heresiophobia -- Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and totalitarianism -- Carl Schmitt and early modern Western esotericism -- Carl Schmitt and gnosticism -- Communism and the heresy of religion -- Eric Voegelin, anti-gnosticism, and the totalitarian emphasis on order -- The rhetoric of anti-gnosticism -- Voegelinian inquisitors -- Norman Cohn and the pursuit of heretics -- The inner demons of Europe once again -- Theodor Adorno and the "occult" -- Another long, strange trip -- That old bugaboo, "gnosticism," yet again -- An epidemic of evil! -- Digital revolution -- High weirdness in the American hinterlands -- The satanic panic of late-twentieth-century America -- Illuminatiphobia -- The Christian illuminati -- The American state of exception -- Rendering to the secular arm -- Berdyaev's insight -- Dostoevsky revisited -- Berdyaev on inquisitional psychopathology -- Totalitarianism of the left and of the right -- The betrayal of humanity -- It can happen here -- Conclusion : disorder as order -- Bohme's metaphysics of evil -- Ideocracy's consequences -- Heresy and history -- The ubiquity of ideopathology -- Mysticism and Plato's cave.TotalitarianismTotalitarianism.321.9Versluis Arthur1959-752484MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910795857303321The new inquisitions3757776UNINA