TY  - BOOK
AU  - Preparata,Guido Giacomo
TI  - Ideology of tyranny : the use of neo-gnostic myth in American politics
SN  - 9780230114944
AV  - JC328.3 .P735 2007
U1  - 320.5 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Opposition (Political science)
KW  - Political correctness
KW  - Dissenters
KW  - Postmodernism
N1  - 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
ER  -