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Dangerous Minds - Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right (Hardcover)
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Dangerous Minds - Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right (Hardcover)
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Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet
Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal
democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having
banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried
communism, and the result would be an end of major ideological
conflicts, as liberal norms and institutions spread to every corner
of the globe. With the Brexit vote in Great Britain, the resurgence
of right-wing populist parties across the European continent, and
the surprising ascent of Donald Trump to the American presidency,
such hopes have begun to seem hopelessly naïve. The far right is
back, and serious rethinking is in order. In Dangerous Minds,
Ronald Beiner traces the deepest philosophical roots of such
right-wing ideologues as Richard Spencer, Aleksandr Dugin, and
Steve Bannon to the writings of Nietzsche and Heidegger—and
specifically to the aspects of their thought that express revulsion
for the liberal-democratic view of life. Beiner contends that
Nietzsche's hatred and critique of bourgeois, egalitarian societies
has engendered new disciples on the populist right who threaten to
overturn the modern liberal consensus. Heidegger, no less than
Nietzsche, thoroughly rejected the moral and political values that
arose during the Enlightenment and came to power in the wake of the
French Revolution. Understanding Heideggerian dissatisfaction with
modernity, and how it functions as a philosophical magnet for those
most profoundly alienated from the reigning liberal-democratic
order, Beiner argues, will give us insight into the recent and
unexpected return of the far right. Beiner does not deny that
Nietzsche and Heidegger are important thinkers; nor does he seek to
expel them from the history of philosophy. But he does advocate
that we rigorously engage with their influential thought in light
of current events—and he suggests that we place their severe
critique of modern liberal ideals at the center of this engagement.
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