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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
  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
  6. Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and Totalitarianism
  7. Communism and the Heresy of Religion
  8. Eric Voegelin, Anti-Gnosticism, and the Totalitarian Emphasis on Order
  9. Norman Cohn and the Pursuit of Heretics
  10. Theodor Adorno and the "Occult"
  11. Another Long, Strange Trip
  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