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

"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."--BOOK JACKET 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. Introductory : A Genealogy Of Postmodernism -- The Great Goddess And Dionysus -- Gnostic Fragments -- The Marquis De Sade : A Liberal Father To Them All -- Bataille -- Mystique -- The Monstrous Archons -- Eroticism -- Expenditure -- Power -- Foucault And The Social Science-fiction Of Neo-gnosticism -- The Mocking Varlets Of The Postmodern Left : Political Correctness, Education, And Empire -- Education And Political Correctness -- Empire -- The Tomb Raiders Of The Postmodern Right : Jünger's Anarch, The Neocon, And The Bogus Hermeneutics Of Leo Strauss -- Jünger's Anarch -- Martin The Obscure -- Kojève : The Pierre Menard Of Postmodernism -- Leo The Squalid -- Neocon -- True Power : The End Of Dissent, Iran/iraq, And The War On Terror -- Veblen's Testament And The End Of Dissent -- Mr. Foucault Goes To Teheran -- Gulf One : The Great Illusion -- The War On Terror -- Summary And Conclusions. Guido Giacomo Preparata. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [247]-254) And Index.