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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.

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Preface A Genealogy of Postmodernism The Great Mother and Dionysus Gnostic Fragments The Marquis de Sade: A Liberal Father to Them All Bataille Michel Foucault and the Social Science-Fiction of Neo-Gnosticism The ´Mocking Varlets´ of the Postmodern Left The Tomb Raiders of the Postmodern Right: Junger´s Anarch, the Neocon, and the Bogus Hermeneutics of Leo Strauss True Power: The End of Dissent, Iran/Iraq, and the War on Terror

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´ The Ideology of Tyranny exposes a bankrupt mode of thought, clearing the way for a re-invigorated philosophy and social science of unembarrassed fealty to centrality and truth. What´s more, it is an entertaining read, thoroughly unpretentious, jargon-free, and marked by scintillating argument. Preparata makes a compelling, unique and truly remarkable contribution to our understanding of postmodernism, and especially Foucault.´ - David MacGregor, Professor of Sociology at King´s University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada, and author of The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx

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GUIDO GIACOMO PREPARATA Associate Professor at the University of Washington, USA.

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