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The new inquisitions [electronic resource] : heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / Arthur Versluis.

By: Versluis, Arthur, 1959-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xii, 190 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): TotalitarianismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 321.9 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction : 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.
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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 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.