Ideology of tyranny the use of neo-gnostic myth in American politics

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-254) and index.

Introductory : a genealogy of postmodernism -- The great goddess and Dionysus -- Gnostic fragments -- The Marquis de Sade : a liberal father to them all -- Bataille -- Mystique -- The monstrous archons -- Eroticism -- Expenditure -- Power -- Foucault and the social science-fiction of neo-gnosticism -- The "mocking varlets" of the postmodern left : political correctness, education, and empire -- Education and political correctness -- Empire -- The tomb raiders of the postmodern right : Jünger's anarch, the neocon, and the bogus hermeneutics of Leo Strauss -- Jünger's anarch -- Martin the Obscure -- Kojève : the Pierre Menard of postmodernism -- Leo the Squalid -- Neocon -- True power : the end of dissent, Iran/Iraq, and the War on Terror -- Veblen's testament and the end of dissent -- Mr. Foucault goes to Teheran -- Gulf one : the great illusion -- The War on Terror -- Summary and conclusions.