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001 2005031801
003 DLC
005 20090808083604.0
008 051102s2006 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0195306376 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780195306378
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm62341453
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050 00 $aJC480$b.V45 2006
082 00 $a321.9$222
100 1 $aVersluis, Arthur,$d1959-
245 14 $aThe new inquisitions :$bheretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism /$cArthur Versluis.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2006.
300 $axii, 190 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barrès 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 -- Böhme's metaphysics of evil -- Ideocracy's consequences -- Heresy and history -- The ubiquity of ideopathology -- Mysticism and Plato's cave.
650 0 $aTotalitarianism.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005031801.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2005031801-d.html