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...adversary of thought." With this quotation from Martin Heidegger's "The Word of Nietzsche: 'God is Dead,'" Richard Wolin opens his account of the enduring presence of the Counter-Enlightenment thinking of fascists and proto-fascists in his The Seduction of Unreason. Wolin's thesis is twofold: "les extremes se touchent" in their criticism of universalized truths of Enlightenment Reason, and this fact is dangerous for modern liberal developments in the realms of civil liberties and human rights. (1)
The Seduction of Unreason is not only an introductory course in fascist and proto-fascist thought, it is also a political guide to those who would oppose Counter-Enlightenment thought and the rejection of human rights, civil liberties,...
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