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" The new inquisitions : "
Arthur Versluis.
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BL
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967693
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b722063
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| Main Entry
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Versluis, Arthur,1959-
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The new inquisitions : : heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism /\ Arthur Versluis.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2006.
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1 online resource (xii, 190 pages)
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0195306376
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: 0195345622
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: 1280846577
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: 9780195306378
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: 9780195345629
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: 9781280846571
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0195306376
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9780195306378
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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'The New Inquisitions' begins with early Christianity, and traces heretic-hunting as a phenomenon through the middle ages and right into the 20th century, showing how the same inquisitional modes of thought recur both on the political Left and on the political Right.
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Totalitarianism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Totalitarianism.
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321.9
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JC480.V45 2006eb
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15.59bcl
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89.36bcl
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