The Seduction of Unreason (eBook)

The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition

Richard Wolin (Autor)

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2019 | 2. Auflage
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19210-9 (ISBN)

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Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include The Wind From the East and Heidegger's Children (both Princeton).

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Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodernism's infatuation with fascism has been extensive and widespread. He questions postmodernism's claim to have inherited the mantle of the Left, suggesting instead that it has long been enamored with the opposite end of the political spectrum. Wolin reveals how, during in the 1930s, C. G. Jung, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot were seduced by fascism's promise of political regeneration and how this misapprehension affected the intellectual core of their work. The result is a compelling and unsettling reinterpretation of the history of modern thought. In a new preface, Wolin revisits this illiberal intellectual lineage in light of the contemporary resurgence of political authoritarianism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Adolf Hitler • Aestheticism • Anti-Americanism • anti-intellectualism • Art for art's sake • Arthur Moeller van den Bruck • Bourgeoisie • Capitalism • Carl Schmitt • Civilization • communism • Cosmopolitanism • Counter-Enlightenment • counter-revolutionary • Criticism • critique • declaration of war • Deconstruction • Delusion • Democracy • Dictatorship • Disenchantment • Ethos • Existentialism • Extremism • far-right politics • Foray • French Philosophy • Georges Bataille • Germans • hegemony • hostility • Identity politics • Ideology • Individualism • Inner emigration • Intellectual • Italian Fascism • Jacques Derrida • Jean Baudrillard • Jean-François Lyotard • Jean-Marie Le Pen • Jean-Paul Sartre • Jews • Joseph de Maistre • Lecture • left-wing politics • Leitmotif • Liberalism • Literature • Marquis de Sade • Martin Heidegger • Maurice Blanchot • Michel Foucault • Modernity • Modern Paganism • Morality • Nazi Party • Nazism • neo-nazism • Nouvelle Droite • Oswald Spengler • Philosopher • philosophical anarchism • Philosophy • Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche • Philosophy of History • Pierre Drieu La Rochelle • Political culture • Political Party • Political Philosophy • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • Postmodernism • post-structuralism • Precedent • Prejudice • Psychoanalysis • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • Reactionary • reason • Relativism • rhetoric • right-wing politics • Romanticism • Rule of Law • Sovereignty • Standpoint (magazine) • Superiority (short story) • The German Ideology • theory • Thought • Totalitarianism • Transvaluation of values • World View • World War I • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19210-3 / 0691192103
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19210-9 / 9780691192109