The Devil's Pleasure Palace The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781594037689
  • 27 augustus 2015
  • 222 pagina's
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The Devil's Pleasure Palace is t he untold story of how communist refugees of the Frankfurt School and their doctrine of Critical Theory launched an assault on nearly every American institution, resulting today in the dominance of the far left in academe, publishing, journalism, television and popular culture.



In the aftermath of World War II, America stood alone as the world's premier military power. Yet its martial confidence contrasted vividly with its sense of cultural inferiority. Still looking to a defeated and dispirited Europe for intellectual and artistic guidance, the burgeoning transnational elite in New York and Washington embraced not only the war's refugees, but many of their ideas as well, and nothing has proven more pernicious than those of the Frankfurt School and its reactionary philosophy of "critical theory." In The Devil's Pleasure Palace, Michael Walsh describes how Critical Theory released a horde of demons into the American psyche. When everything could be questioned, nothing could be real, and the muscular, confident empiricism that had just won the war gave way, in less than a generation, to a central-European nihilism celebrated on college campuses across the United States. Seizing the high ground of academe and the arts, the New Nihilists set about dissolving the bedrock of the country, from patriotism to marriage to the family to military service. They have sown, as Cardinal Bergoglio--now Pope Francis--once wrote of the Devil, "destruction, division, hatred, and calumny," and all disguised as the search for truth. The Devil's Pleasure Palace exposes the overlooked movement that is Critical Theory and explains how it took root in America and, once established and gestated, how it has affected nearly every aspect of American life and society.

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27 augustus 2015
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Michael Walsh
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  • Fraai geschreven boek, maar het overschat de invloed van academici

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    • Heldere boodschap

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    • Te theoretisch

    Kritiek op de Frankfurt School van emigre politieke filosofen als Marcuse, Horkheimer etc.

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