The ideology of tyranny : Bataille, Foucault, and the postmodern corruption of political dissent / b...
The ideology of tyranny : Bataille, Foucault, and the postmodern corruption of political dissent / b...
The ideology of tyranny : Bataille, Foucault, and the postmodern corruption of political dissent / by Guido G. Preparata.
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N320.5/ 85
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English
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xix, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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...
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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New York (State)
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2007.
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"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-elabor...
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The ideology of tyranny : Bataille, Foucault, and the postmodern corruption of political dissent / by Guido G. Preparata.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N320.5/ 85
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9781403982773
1403982775 (alk. paper)
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320.5
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991023471279702626
