The new inquisitions
Versluis, Arthur, 1959-
The new inquisitions heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / [electronic resource] : Arthur Versluis. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xii, 190 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.
Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barrès 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 -- Böhme's metaphysics of evil -- Ideocracy's consequences -- Heresy and history -- The ubiquity of ideopathology -- Mysticism and Plato's cave.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA638494 bnb
Uk
Totalitarianism.
Electronic books.
JC480 / .V45 2006eb
321.9
The new inquisitions heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / [electronic resource] : Arthur Versluis. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xii, 190 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.
Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barrès 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 -- Böhme's metaphysics of evil -- Ideocracy's consequences -- Heresy and history -- The ubiquity of ideopathology -- Mysticism and Plato's cave.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA638494 bnb
Uk
Totalitarianism.
Electronic books.
JC480 / .V45 2006eb
321.9