The pornography of power
Lionel Rubinoff
Bok · Engelsk · 1968
| Utgitt | Chicago [lll.] : Quadrangle Books , cop. 1968
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| Omfang | XI, 239 s.
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| Opplysninger | This eloquent book, rich in philosophic insight and immediately relevant to our contemporary world, is an inquiry into the depths of human nature. Mr. Rubinoff is concerned with two central ideas: progress and power, both of which have had a deep and lasting influence on the course of Western history. The progress ideology, say the author, has replaced the pursuit of truth with the quest for power. And just as sexual taboos have brought about pornography to satisfy the demands of fantasy, so the repression of the irrationality of power in our world today leads only to its pornographic enjoyment - war, racism, violence. Using illustrations from Plato to Genet and Norman Mailer, Mr. Rubinoff explains the perennial conflict between humanistic and irrationalistic theories of man. He describes how the social sciences have corrupted us. Ultimately he introduces the myth of existential man whose very being emerges through self-negation, and who offers man's only realizable hope: the imagination - and transcendence - of evil
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