The devil's pleasure palace : the cult of critical theory and the subversion of the West /

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Author / Creator:Walsh, Michael, 1949-
Edition:First American edition.
Imprint:New York : Encounter Books, [2015]
Description:222 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10396467
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ISBN:9781594037689 (hardcover : alk. paper)
159403768X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781594037696 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The Argument
  • Introduction: Of the Devil's Pleasure Palace
  • Chapter 1. Whose Paradise?
  • Chapter 2. Thesis
  • Chapter 3. Antithesis
  • Chapter 4. The Sleep of Pure Reason Produces Monsters
  • Chapter 5. The Descent into Hell
  • Chapter 6. The Eternal Feminine
  • Chapter 7. Of Light and Darkness
  • Chapter 8. Of Words and Music
  • Chapter 9. The Venusberg of Death
  • Chapter 10. World without God, Amen
  • Chapter 11. Of Eros and Thanatos
  • Chapter 12. The Consolation of Philosophy
  • Chapter 13. Mephisto at the Ministry of Love
  • Chapter 14. The Devil Is in the Details
  • Chapter 15. Oikophobes and Xenophiles
  • Chapter 16. Good-Bye to All That
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index