Wolin The Seduction of Unreason

The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
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Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His books, which have been translated into eight languages, include Heidegger's Children (Princeton) and Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption. His work has also appeared in The New Republic and Dissent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolin, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xvii

A Note on Giorgio de Chirico's "Song of Love" xx

INTRODUCTION: Answer to the Question: What Is Counter-Enlightenment? 1

PART I. THE GERMAN IDEOLOGY REVISITED

1. Zarathustra Goes to Hollywood: On the Postmodern

Reception of Nietzsche 27

2. Prometheus Unhinged: C. G. Jung and the Temptations of Aryan Religion 63

3. Fascism and Hermeneutics: Gadamer and the Ambiguities of "Inner Emigration" 89

POLITICAL EXCURSUS I: Incertitudes Allemandes: Reflections on the German New Right 129

PART II. FRENCH LESSONS

4. Left Fascism: Georges Bataille and the German Ideology 153

5. Maurice Blanchot: The Use and Abuse of Silence 187

6. Down by Law: Deconstruction and the Problem of Justice 220

POLITICAL EXCURSES II: Designer Fascism: On the Ideology of the French New Right 256

CONCLUSION: "Site of Catastrophe": The Image of America in Modern Thought 278

Notes 315

Index 369

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His books, which have been translated into eight languages, include Heidegger's Children (Princeton) and Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption. His work has also appeared in The New Republic and Dissent.