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The Ideology of Tyranny: Bataille, Foucault, and the Postmodern Corruption of Political Dissent

By Guido Giacomo Preparata

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
ISBN
1403982775, 9781403982773
Open Library ID
OL11642898M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11395861 bytes)
Pages
280\277
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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-elaborated in abstract form by the late followers of Bataille, has led to the creation of a peculiar talk emphasizing difference, antagonism, intellectual despair, and a profound political conservatism. As the so-called Left has lately come to adopt this troubling gospel of divisiveness, the consequence for a wholesome culture of dissent in our society have been a disastrous paralysis of its critical and moral faculties in the face of a new dawn of never-ending wars.

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