02873nam a22003374a 4500 ebr10160627 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 051102s2006 enk sb 001 0 eng 2005031801 GBA638494 bnb 013442437 Uk 0195306376 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780195306378 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)79825654 JC480 .V45 2006eb 321.9 22 Versluis, Arthur, 1959- The new inquisitions [electronic resource] : heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / Arthur Versluis. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. xii, 190 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index. Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cort�es and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barr�es 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 -- B�ohme's metaphysics of evil -- Ideocracy's consequences -- Heresy and history -- The ubiquity of ideopathology -- Mysticism and Plato's cave. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Totalitarianism. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10160627 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 133073 133073