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

    Written by Michael Walsh

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    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, burgeoning trans-national 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." At once overly intellectualized and emotionally juvenile, Critical Theory-like Pandora's Box-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.
    In The Devil's Pleasure Palace Michael Walsh looks at how Critical Theory took root in America and came to affect nearly every aspect of American life and society-and what can be done to stop it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 29, 2015
    ISBN9781494587352
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    Michael Walsh

    The author of seventeen novels and non-fiction books, Michael Walsh was the classical music critic and a foreign correspondent for Time Magazine, and received the 2004 American Book Awards prize for fiction for his gangster novel, And All the Saints. His books The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and The Fiery Angel examine the enemies, heroes, triumphs, and struggles of Western Civilization from the ancient past to the present, while Last Stands (2020) explores the reasons why men fight to end when all is lost. He divides his time between Connecticut and Ireland.

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    • 5/5
      Our history is our hope. An amazing book that provides continuity from ageless to current in human governance, norms, and art. More understandable today (2021) than when written in 2015.

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    • 2/5
      As erudite as it is inconsequential. As expected from a media critic. Writing this book was possibly therapy for the author. I don't have anything against his sentiments but stories are just stories, the universe would still exist without them and the only meaning they have is as part of our culture and are not a holy revelation.