The pornography of power - lionel rubinoff - ocr.pdf - zachomikowane - kosa39

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 in-

fluence on the course of Western history.

The progress ideology, says the author,

has replaced the pursuit of truth with

the quest for power. And just as sexual

taboos have brought about pornogra-

phy 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. Rubin-

off explains the perennial conflict be-

tween humanistic and irrationalistic

theories of man. He describes how the

social sciences have corrupted us. Ulti-

mately he introduces the myth of exist-

ential man whose very being emerges

through self-negation, and who offers

man's only realizable hope: the imagi-

nation-and transcendence-of evil.

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