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The ideology of tyranny : Bataille, Foucault, and the postmodern corruption of political dissent / Guido Giacomo Preparata.
| Author/creator | Preparata, Guido Giacomo |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. |
| Description | xix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introductory : a genealogy of postmodernism -- The great goddess and Dionysus -- Gnostic fragments -- The Marquis de Sade : a liberal father to them all -- Bataille -- Mystique -- The monstrous archons -- Eroticism -- Expenditure -- Power -- Foucault and the social science-fiction of neo-gnosticism -- The "mocking varlets" of the postmodern left : political correctness, education, and empire -- Education and political correctness -- Empire -- The tomb raiders of the postmodern right : Jünger's anarch, the neocon, and the bogus hermeneutics of Leo Strauss -- Jünger's anarch -- Martin the Obscure -- Kojève : the Pierre Menard of postmodernism -- Leo the Squalid -- Neocon -- True power : the end of dissent, Iran/Iraq, and the War on Terror -- Veblen's testament and the end of dissent -- Mr. Foucault goes to Teheran -- Gulf one : the great illusion -- The War on Terror -- Summary and conclusions. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-254) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007004476 |
| ISBN | 1403982775 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781403982773 (alk. paper) |