The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism

by Arthur Versluis

The only book of its kind, The New Inquisitions is an exhilarating investigation into the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Arthur Versluis unveils the connections between heretic hunting in early and medieval Christianity, and the emergence of totalitarianism in the twentieth century.
He shows how secular political thinkers in the nineteenth century inaugurated a tradition of defending the Inquisition, and how Inquisition-style heretic-hunting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195306376
• ISBN13: 9780195306378
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"