The Ideology of Tyranny : Bataille, Foucault, and the Postmodern Corruption of Political Dissent
by
G. Preparata
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0230114946
ISBN-13
9780230114944
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 10th, 2011
Print length
257 Pages
Weight
438 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 23.00 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Social & political philosophyPolitical science & theoryPolitical ideologies
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The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America to the adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted in the Eighties by importing from France the "theories" of philosopher Michel Foucault.
The Ideology of Tyranny traces the contemporary jargon of political correctness and the so-called ''politics of diversity'' so prevalent in the academic and administrative discourse of the United States to the fantastic sociology of an obscure French pornographer, Georges Bataille (1897-1962). The celebration of violence sung in his works, re-elaborated in abstract form by the late followers of Bataille, has led to the creation of a peculiar talk emphasizing difference, antagonism, intellectual despair, and a profound political conservatism. As the so-called Left has lately come to adopt this troubling gospel of divisiveness, the consequence for a wholesome culture of dissent in our society have been a disastrous paralysis of its critical and moral faculties in the face of a new dawn of never-ending wars.
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