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The past fifteen years in France have seen a remarkable flourishing of new work in political philosophy. This anthology brings into English for the first time essays by some of the best young French political thinkers writing today, including Marcel Gauchet, Pierre Manent, Luc Ferry, and Alain Renaut. The central theme of these essays is liberal de

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In profiles of Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Alexandre Kojeve, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, the author demonstrates how these thinkers were so deluded by the ideologies and convulsions of their times that they closed their eyes to authoritarianism, brutality, and state terror.

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We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, the author argues, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. He unveils the structure of reactionary thinking, beginning with three twentieth-century philosophers - Franz Rosenzweig, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss.