G. Preparata

Gebundenes Buch

The Ideology of Tyranny

Bataille, Foucault, and the Postmodern Corruption of Political Dissent

Beschreibung

The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America to the adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted in the Eighties by importing from France the "theories" of philosopher Michel Foucault.

Autor

GUIDO GIACOMO PREPARATA Associate Professor at the University of Washington, USA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-8277-3
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 257
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 168mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781403982773
• ISBN-10: 1403982775
• Artikelnr.: 24543405

Rezensionen

' 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