The Seduction of Unreason

Description

"Fifteen years ago, revelations about the political misdeeds of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man sent shock waves throughout European and North American intellectual circles. Ever since, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodern's infatuation with fascism has been widespread and not incidental. He calls into question postmodernism's claim to have inherited the mantle of the left - and suggests that postmodern thought has long been smitten with the opposite end of the political spectrum."--Jacket.

First Sentence

IN HONOR of the Enlightenment the eighteenth century was commonly known as the century of lumiere, or light.

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Other Editions

• The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to PostmodernismHardcoverPrinceton University Press2004-03-01
• The Seduction of UnreasonPaperbackPrinceton University Press2006-02-27
• Seduction of UnreasonPrinceton University Press2009-01-01
• Seduction of UnreasonPrinceton University Press2019-01-01
• The Seduction of UnreasonPaperbackPrinceton University Press2019-04-30