Frontmatter
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Giorgio de Chirico's "Song of Love"
Introduction: Answer to the Question: What Is Counter-Enlightenment?
PART I. The German Ideology Revisited
1. Zarathustra Goes to Hollywood: On the Postmodern Reception of Nietzsche
2. Prometheus Unhinged: C. G. Jung and the Temptations of Aryan Religion
3. Fascism and Hermeneutics: Gadamer and the Ambiguities of "Inner Emigration"
POLITICAL EXCURSUSI. Incertitudes Allemandes: Reflections on the German New Right
PART II. French Lessons
4. Left Fascism: Georges Bataille and the German Ideology
5. Maurice Blanchot: The Use and Abuse of Silence
6. Down by Law: Deconstruction and the Problem of Justice
POLITICAL EXCURSUS II. Designer Fascism: On the Ideology of the French New Right
Conclusion: "Site of Catastrophe": The Image of America in Modern Thought
Notes
Index