G. Preparata 
The Ideology of Tyranny 
Bataille, Foucault, and the Postmodern Corruption of Political Dissent

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.

Table of Content

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

About the author

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