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| Introduction: Heresy | |
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| Heresy and the Inquisition | |
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| Czeslaw Milosz and the Captive Mind | |
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| The Archetypal Inquisition | |
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| Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition | |
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| Juan Donoso Cortes and the "Sickness" of the Liberal State | |
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| Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras: The Emergence of Secular State Corporatism | |
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| Maurice Barres and Charles Maurras: The Nationalist Substitute for Catholicism | |
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| The Secularization of Heresiophobia | |
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| Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and Totalitarianism | |
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| Carl Schmitt and Early Modern Western Esotericism | |
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| Carl Schmitt and Gnosticism | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Communism and the Heresy of Religion | |
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| Eric Voegelin, Anti-Gnosticism, and the Totalitarian Emphasis on Order | |
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| The Rhetoric of Anti-Gnosticism | |
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| Voegelinian Inquisitors | |
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| Norman Cohn and the Pursuit of Heretics | |
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| The Inner Demons of Europe Once Again | |
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| Theodor Adorno and the "Occult" | |
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| Another Long, Strange Trip | |
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| That Old Bugaboo, "Gnosticism," Yet Again | |
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| An Epidemic of Evil! | |
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| Digital Revolution | |
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| High Weirdness in the American Hinterlands | |
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| The Satanic Panic of Late-Twentieth-Century America | |
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| Illuminatiphobia | |
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| The Christian Illuminati | |
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| The American State of Exception | |
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| Rendering to the Secular Arm | |
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| Berdyaev's Insight | |
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| Dostoevsky Revisited | |
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| Berdyaev on Inquisitional Psychopathology | |
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| Totalitarianism of the Left and of the Right | |
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| The Betrayal of Humanity | |
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| It Can Happen Here | |
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| Conclusion: Disorder as Order | |
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| Bohme's Metaphysics of Evil | |
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| Ideocracy's Consequences | |
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| Heresy and History | |
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| The Ubiquity of Ideopathology | |
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| Mysticism and Plato's Cave | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |