The new inquisitions heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism Versluis, Arthur 1959- creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. enk Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2006 monographic eng
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xii, 190 p. 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. Arthur Versluis. Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Totalitarianism JC480 .V45 2006eb 321.9 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10160627 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10160627 CaPaEBR 051102 ebr10160627