| | Introduction : Tocquevilles virus | | 1 |
Pt. I | | Ancients and moderns | | 35 |
1 | | Freedom and tyranny in Socrates and Plato | | 37 |
2 | | Friends, enemies, and the cosmology of power politics | | 61 |
3 | | The mechanisation of society and the pathologies of the self | | 87 |
Pt. II | | The madness of modernity | | 113 |
4 | | Modernity and schizophrenia | | 115 |
5 | | Autism, paranoia, critique | | 145 |
Pt. III | | Totalitarianism | | 181 |
6 | | Arendts theory of totalitarianism | | 183 |
7 | | Arendts paranoia critique of modernity | | 219 |
| | Conclusion : America, nation of the edge | | 265 |