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The seduction of unreason
the intellectual romance with fascism
By Wolin, Richard
- ISBN
- 978-0-69111-464-4
- Publisher
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 15, 2004
Wolin (comparative literature, CUNY; Heidegger's Children) here considers the collapse of reason and the role of intellectuals in the right-wing totalitarianisms that ravaged Europe in the 20th century and in the racist New Right that has recently emerged. From Nietzsche's romantic assaults on enlightenment reason, he works his way to the dizzying excesses of French deconstructionism. He chronicles how he thinks German classicists like Werner Jaeger and philosophers like Martin Heide...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
