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Draws on Jacques Rancière's thesis in Hatred of Democracy to help explain the aversion to sex that is evident in numerous forms in the culture around us.

For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature's continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference.--

A comprehensive guide to religious discrimination and hatred legislation, this book, by a practising barrister, offers an accessible examination of this controversial area, using a variety of practical examples covering all forms of religious belief.<

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 -- Tocqueville's vision of history -- The ending of "mixed" government -- "Right" and "Left": Their conservative misreadings -- A liberal misreading -- Conservatives and liberals -- Popular sovereignty and socialism -- Popular sovereignty and nationalism -- Nationalism and socialism -- The accumulation of opinions -- Progressive liberalism -- Progressives and populists -- Populist anti-Semitism and Germanophilia -- Nation and state -- 2 -- 1914: The world of yesterday? -- Modern"? -- The Russian Revolution: A tremendous failure -- 1917 and the Americanization of the world -- The failure of liberalism after 1918 -- 1920-1945: The division of the world -- Misuse and misreading of "Fascism" -- Misuse and misreading of "totalitarianism" -- Misuse and misreading of National Socialism as an "ideology" -- 3 -- The United States in 1945 and thereafter -- The decline of the state -- The declining function of "classes" -- Tyranny of the majority"? "Public opinion" and its misreadings -- Decline of privacy, rise of publicity -- Publicity and celebrity -- Changes in the recording and knowledge of history -- 4 -- Fear and hatred -- Triumph and disappearance of "liberalism" -- The rise of criminality -- A new, profound, division -- Ideas and beliefs -- Hope, against fear -- Index.