Introduction: Answer to the Question: What Is Counter-Enlightenment?

Chapters in this book

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