5. Maurice Blanchot: The Use and Abuse of Silence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. A Note on Giorgio De Chirico’s “Song of Love” xxi
6. Introduction. Answer to the Question: What is Counter-Enlightenment? 1
7. Part I. The German Ideology Revisited
8. 1. Zarathustra Goes To Hollywood: On The Postmodern Reception Of Nietzsche 27
9. 2. Prometheus Unhinged: C. G. Jung and the Temptations of Aryan Religion 63
10. 3. Fascism And Hermeneutics: Gadamer and the Ambiguities of “Inner Emigration” 89
11. Political Excursus I. Incertitudes Allemandes: Reflections On the German New Right 129
12. Part II. French Lessons
13. 4. Left Fascism: Georges Bataille and the German Ideology 153
14. 5. Maurice Blanchot: The Use and Abuse of Silence 187
15. 6. Down By Law: Deconstruction and the Problem of Justice 220
16. Political Excursus II. Designer Fascism: On the Ideology of the French New Right 256
17. Conclusion: “Site of Catastrophe”: The Image of America in Modern Thought 278
18. Notes 315
19. Index 369