The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Encounter BooksISBN-13:9781641773737ISBN-10:1641773731UPC:9781641773737Book Category:Political Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, Civics & Citizenship, PoliticalBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCC01X93Q2
The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now
The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness, and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labeled evil, backward, racist, colonialist, sexist, etc.Jacobinism, Marxism-Leninism, National...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Encounter BooksISBN-13:9781641773737ISBN-10:1641773731UPC:9781641773737Book Category:Political Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, Civics & Citizenship, PoliticalBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCC01X93Q2
Daniel J. Mahoney is professor emeritus at Assumption University (where he taught from 1986 until 2021), senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and senior writer at Law and Liberty. He has written extensively on statesmanship, French political thought, the art and political thought of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, conservatism, religion and politics, and various themes in political philosophy. His...
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