The new inquisitions : heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism /
| Main Author: | Versluis, Arthur, 1959- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : heresy
- Heresy and the inquisition
- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind
- The archetypal inquisition
- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition
- Juan Donoso Cortaes and the "sickness" of the liberal state
- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism
- Maurice Barraes 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
- Beohme's metaphysics of evil
- Ideocracy's consequences
- Heresy and history
- The ubiquity of ideopathology
- Mysticism and Plato's cave.