The Roots And Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire,

Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Hitler-a poet, a philosopher, and a politician-each profoundly understood the seductive attraction of evil. All three clearly and candidly depicted evil in idealized garb. Underheath superficial appearances of contradiction, we find in their writings uncanny insight into the human essence behind the masks of convention and hypocrisy.

Acknowledgments

xi

Au Lecteur

xiv

PART ONE FROM THEORY . . .

1

(92)

Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Hitler, and Theories

3

(5)

``From a Common Root . . .''

8

(2)

The Roots of Moral Values for Nietzsche

10

(5)

Beyond Good and Evil

15

(3)

On Blonde Beasts and Ubermenschen

18

(3)

The Reversal of Values and the Specter of Contradiction

21

(3)

Baudelaire on Bludgeoning the Poor

24

(2)

Born for Evil

26

(2)

For a Race of Masters and Conquerors

28

(3)

The Victory of the ``Better and Stronger''

31

(3)

Neither Marx . . .

34

(3)

. . . nor Jesus

37

(6)

Nietzsche's Theories about Sick People

43

(2)

On Fostering the Strongest and the Healthiest

45

(2)

Hitler's Theories about Idealism in Mein Kampf

47

(3)

The ``Idealization'' of Humanity

50

(2)

Torpor and Turpitude

52

(6)

The Intoxication of Beauty and Art

58

(4)

The Devil

62

(5)

The Magical Powers of Words

67

(5)

Stripping Truth of Its Authority and Power

72

(3)

Vice, Crime, Beauty

75

(5)

Jung on the Sight of Evil

80

(1)

Guilty of Realism?

81

(4)

Behind the Masks

85

(3)

Jung's Reflections on Hitler, Nazism, and Realism

88

(5)

PART TWO . . . TO REALITY

93

(78)

Making Action the Sister of One's Dreams

95

(1)

Of the Pen and the Sword

96

(2)

Imagining Adolf Eichmann

98

(2)

On Setting Aside Aesthetics

100

(1)

A Soul Powerful in Crime

101

(2)

Awakening Latent Tendencies in Society

103

(2)

Civilization and Its Discontents

105

(3)

Unleashing Pent-up Desires

108

(2)

On the Fulfillment of Long Present Desires

110

(3)

``The Show''

113

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Horror Replaces the Romance of Battle

114

(2)

The ``Hidden Power of Evil'' Released

116

(2)

Expressing Primitivity, Violence, and Cruelty

118

(4)

The Use of Terror

122

(2)

A Satisfied Torturer

124

(4)

Massacre

128

(2)

Destroying One's Own

130

(3)

Weeding Out People

133

(1)

Cleansing Society by Destroying Useless Lives

134

(4)

Sick, Weak Men

138

(4)

Jung on the Sentiment of Inferiority

142

(2)

Racism and Slaughter

144

(4)

Mass Executions

148

(5)

Extermination

153

(3)

Beyond Good and Evil?

156

(5)

Baudelaire's Meditation on a Corpse

161

(2)

Meditating on Piles of Corpses

163

(8)

PART THREE AND FROM REALITY TO THEORY

171

(50)

From Reality to Theory

174

(1)

What Experience Has Taught Proponents of Nonviolence

175

(2)

Mikhail Gorbachev on Going from Theory to Reality and from Reality to Theory

177

(1)

The Reality of Power in the Nuclear Age

178

(3)

Attacking with the Truth

181

(1)

Sowing the Seeds of One's Own Destruction

182

(3)

Breeding Lilacs Out of Dead Ground

185

(1)

Applying Social Pressure to Revolutionize Social Ideas

186

(2)

Planting Lethal Seeds

188

(1)

Curbing the Power of Evildoers through Nonviolent, Noncooperation with Evil

189

(2)

A Creative Force in the Universe

191

(2)

Limning the True and Ultimate Structure of Reality

193

(1)

Tolstoy on Undermining the Entire Existing Order of the World

194

(2)

Tolstoy on Penetrating the Essence of the Human Soul

196

(2)

Tolstoy and King Contra Nietzsche

198

(1)

Freud on the Impossibility of Eradicating Evil

199

(3)

Freud on Reality and Religion

202

(1)

Gandhi Contra Hitler

203

(3)

The Power of Self-Sacrifice

206

(6)

Hitler on Combating Spiritual Ideas by Violent Means

212

(2)

The Power of the Ascetic Ideal

214

(1)

The Powerless Declare War

215

(2)

Torturing People's Consciences

217

(1)

Conclusion

218

(3)

Bibliography

221

(11)

Index

232

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