LEADER 03911nam 22005894a 450 001 9910465273803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-84657-7 010 $a0-19-534562-2 010 $a1-4294-3857-6 035 $a(CKB)2560000000300366 035 $a(EBL)273073 035 $a(OCoLC)252674933 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000210426 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201481 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210426 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10282434 035 $a(PQKB)11058737 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000024366 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC273073 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL273073 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10160627 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL84657 035 $a(OCoLC)79825654 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000300366 100 $a20051102d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe new inquisitions$b[electronic resource] $eheretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism /$fArthur Versluis 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (203 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-530637-6 311 $a0-19-985091-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Corte?s and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barre?s 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 -- Bo?hme's metaphysics of evil -- Ideocracy's consequences -- Heresy and history -- The ubiquity of ideopathology -- Mysticism and Plato's cave. 330 $aThe only book of its kind, The New Inquisitions is an exhilarating investigation into the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Arthur Versluis unveils the connections between heretic hunting in early and medieval Christianity, and the emergence of totalitarianism in the twentieth century.He shows how secular political thinkers in the nineteenth century inaugurated a tradition of defending the Inquisition, and how Inquisition-style heretic-hunting later manifested across the spectrum of twentieth-century totalitarianism. An exceptionally wide-ranging work, The New Inquisitionsbegins with e 606 $aTotalitarianism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTotalitarianism. 676 $a321.9 700 $aVersluis$b Arthur$f1959-$0752484 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465273803321 996 $aThe new inquisitions$92292024 997 $aUNINA