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THE NEW INQUISITIONS: HERETIC-HUNTING AND THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF MODERN TOTALITARIANISM

 by Arthur Versluis
Copyright © 2006 by Arthur Versluis

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface

1. Introduction: Heresy
   • Heresy and the Inquisition
   • Czeslaw Milosz and the Captive Mind
2. The Archetypal Inquisition
3. Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition
4. Juan Donoso Cortes and the "Sickness" of the Liberal State
5. Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras: The Emergence of Secular State Corporatism
   • Maurice Barres and Charles Maurras: The Nationalist Substitute for Catholicism
   • The Secularization of Heresiophobia
6. Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and Totalitarianism
   • Carl Schmitt and Early Modern Western Esotericism
   • Carl Schmitt and Gnosticism
   • Conclusions
7. Communism and the Heresy of Religion
8. Eric Voegelin, Anti-Gnosticism, and the Totalitarian Emphasis on Order
   • The Rhetoric of Anti-Gnosticism
   • Voegelinian Inquisitors
9. Norman Cohn and the Pursuit of Heretics
   • The Inner Demons of Europe Once Again
10. Theodor Adorno and the "Occult"
11. Another Long, Strange Trip
    • That Old Bugaboo, "Gnosticism," Yet Again
    • An Epidemic of Evil!
    • Digital Revolution
12. High Weirdness in the American Hinterlands
    • The Satanic Panic of Late-Twentieth-Century America
    • Illuminatiphobia
    • The Christian Illuminati
13. The American State of Exception
    • Rendering to the Secular Arm
14. Berdyaev's Insight
    • Dostoevsky Revisited
    • Berdyaev on Inquisitional Psychopathology
    • Totalitarianism of the Left and of the Right
    • The Betrayal of Humanity
    • It Can Happen Here
15. Conclusion: Disorder as Order
    • Bohme's Metaphysics of Evil
    • Ideocracy's Consequences
    • Heresy and History
    • The Ubiquity of Ideopathology
    • Mysticism and Plato's Cave

    Notes
    Selected Bibliography
    Index