"This is a great book, and I am proud of knowing its author…" – Zygmunt Bauman
"I accept what Leonidas Donskis says in his wise, deep, and important new book, Forms of Hatred." – Timo Airaksinen, University of Helsinki, author of The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade
"an ambitious new book … Forms of Hatred covers rich and varied material, it is always insightful, often penetrating. …well worth the reader’s time" - in: Utopian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2004)
This book analyzes such symbolic designs of the modern troubled imagination as the conspiracy theory of society, deterministic concepts of identity and order, antisemitic obsessions, self-hatred, and the myth of the loss of roots. It offers, among other things, the unique East-Central European materials incorporated in a broad, imaginative synthesis and critique of contemporary social analysis.
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Foreword by Timo Airaksinen
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1 The Making and Unmaking of Enemies: Evil and the Troubled Imagination
ONE The Conspiracy Theory of Society: From Sir John Mandeville to the Modern Troubled Imagination
TWO Transferred Loyalties, Fabricated Identities, and Organized Hatred: The Politics of True Believers vs. the Literature of Skeptics
PART 2 The Uncertainties of Modernity: Ambivalence and the Troubled Identity
THREE Alternative Modernity? Marxism, Modern Ideocracy, and the Secular Church
FOUR Modernity and the Loss of Roots, or Two Modes of Being of the Troubled Identity
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
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Product details
ISBN
9789042010666
Published
2003-01-01
Publisher
Brill; Editions Rodopi B.V.
Weight
481 gr
Height
220 mm
Width
150 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Author