The Persistence of the Ideological Lie The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Altersempfehlung
ab 18 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
15.04.2025
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
232
Maße (L/B/H)
23,2/15,4/2,1 cm
Gewicht
390 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-64177-373-7
"The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness, and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labeled evil, backward, racist, colonialist, sexist, etc. Jacobinism, Marxism-Leninism, National Socialism, Progressive Democracy, the New Left, and now, the new woke dispensation have all iterated upon this central conceit. Their adherents were all frenziedly preoccupied with being on "the right side of history"--the side of "progress." In The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, Daniel Mahoney chronicles each manifestation of the Ideological Lie, up to and including contemporary wokeism. He explains how they are marked by the same errors: impatience with piecemeal reform; contempt for self-limiting constitutional order; and the belief that people are guilty for their immutable characteristics--belonging to the wrong class or race--rather than for their actions. He shows how the woke, moved by self-loathing and a disdain for our civic inheritance, are transmuting our so called "democracy" into a new form of despotism. Mahoney ultimately argues that our failure to learn from the totalitarian tragedy of the twentieth century allowed the ideological virus to metastasize in new and alarming ways. Above all, he takes aim at the omnipresent "culture of repudiation," as the late Roger Scruton called it, and elucidates multiple paths for overcoming the ideological clichâes that continue to deform intellectual and political life today"--
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