The new inquisitions [[electronic resource] ] : heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / / Arthur Versluis
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Versluis Arthur <1959->
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The new inquisitions [[electronic resource] ] : heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / / Arthur Versluis
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | xii, 190 p |
| Disciplina: | 321.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Totalitarianism |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The new inquisitions |
| ISBN: | 9780195345629 |
| 0195345622 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910795857303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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