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The seduction of unreason, the intellectual romance with fascism : from Nietzsche to postmodernism, Richard Wolin

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The seduction of unreason, the intellectual romance with fascism : from Nietzsche to postmodernism, Richard Wolin

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-367) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The seduction of unreason

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bibliography

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52601146

Responsibility statement

Richard Wolin

Sub title

the intellectual romance with fascism : from Nietzsche to postmodernism

Table Of Contents

A note on Giorgio de Chirico's "Song of love" -- Introduction : answer to the question : what is counter-enlightenment? -- -- Part I: The German ideology revisited: -- 1. Zarathustra goes to Hollywood : on the postmodern reception of Nietzsche -- 2. Prometheus unhinged : C.G. Jung and the temptations of Aryan religion -- 3. Fascism and hermeneutics : Gadmer and the ambiguities of "inner emigration" -- Political excursus I. Incertitudes Allemandes : reflections on the German new right -- -- Part II: French lessons: -- 4. Left fascism : Georges Bataille and the German ideology -- 5. Maurice Blanchot : the use and abuse of silence -- 6. Down by law : deconstruction and the problem of justice -- Political excursus II. Designer fascism : on the ideology of the French new right -- -- Conclusion : "site of catastrophe" : the image of America in modern thought

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