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

Preparata, G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230114946 ISBN 13: 9780230114944

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Synopsis

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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Review:

'The Ideology of Tyranny exposes a bankrupt mode of thought, clearing the way for a re-invigorated philosophy and social science of unembarrassed fealty to centrality and truth.  What's more, it is an entertaining read, thoroughly unpretentious, jargon-free, and marked by scintillating argument. Preparata makes a compelling, unique and truly remarkable contribution to our understanding of postmodernism, and especially Foucault.' - David MacGregor, Professor of Sociology at King's University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada, and author of The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx

Book Description:

The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America to the adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted by philosopher Michel Foucault

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0230114946
• ISBN 13: 9780230114944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276