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The New Inquisitions

The New Inquisitions

Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism

by Arthur Versluis
Hardback
Publication Date: 17/08/2006

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The only book of its kind, The New Inquisitions is an exhilarating investigation into the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Arthur Versluis unveils the connections between heretic hunting in early and medieval Christianity, and the emergence of totalitarianism in the twentieth century. He shows how secular political thinkers in the nineteenth century inaugurated a tradition of defending the Inquisition, and how Inquisition-style heretic-hunting later
manifested across the spectrum of twentieth-century totalitarianism. An exceptionally wide-ranging work, The New Inquisitions begins with early Christianity, and traces heretic-hunting as a phenomenon
through the middle ages and right into the twentieth century, showing how the same inquisitional modes of thought recur both on the political Left and on the political Right.
ISBN:
9780195306378
9780195306378
Category:
Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
17-08-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
208
Dimensions (mm):
241x163x21mm
Weight:
0.46kg

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