THE DEVIL’S PLEASURE PALACE: THE CULT OF CRITICAL THEORY AND THE SUBVERSION OF THE WEST
Book ID/图书代码： 03890017C00041
English Summary/英文概要： 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, the burgeoning transnational 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.”
In The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, Michael Walsh describes how Critical Theory 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. Seizing the high ground of academe and the arts, the New Nihilists set about dissolving the bedrock of the country, from patriotism to marriage to the family to military service. They have sown, as Cardinal Bergoglio—now Pope Francis—once wrote of the Devil, “destruction, division, hatred, and calumny,” and all disguised as the search for truth.
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace exposes the overlooked movement that is Critical Theory and explains how it took root in America and, once established and gestated, how it has affected nearly every aspect of American life and society.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 二战后, 美国独立成为世界上最重要的军事强国。然而, 它的军事信心与它的文化自卑形成了鲜明的对比。仍在寻找一个失败的、沮丧的欧洲，以获得知识和艺术的指导的美国，纽约和华盛顿的迅速发展的跨国精英们不仅接纳了战争中的难民，还有他们的许多想法, 没有什么比法兰克福学派及其“批判理论”的反动哲学更有害的了。
在《魔鬼的行宫》一书中, Michael Walsh描述了批判理论如何将一群恶魔释放到美国的心灵中。当一切都可能被质疑时, 没有什么是真实的, 而刚刚赢得战争的强大的, 自信的经验主义, 在不到一代人的时间里, 就在美国大学校园里庆祝中欧虚无主义。占领了学术界和艺术的制高点, 新的虚无主义开始瓦解这个国家的基石, 从爱国主义到婚姻，从家庭到兵役。他们已经播种, 如红衣主教贝尔格里奥-现在教皇弗朗西斯一世-曾经记述的魔鬼, "破坏, 分裂, 仇恨和诽谤," 和所有伪装成寻找真理的虚伪嫁衣。
《魔鬼的行宫》揭示了批判理论被忽视的运动, 解释了它是如何扎根于美国, 一旦建立和孕育, 它如何影响了美国生活和社会的方方面面。（Sandy）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Michael Walsh曾担任《时代杂志》的古典音乐评论家16年，还曾为《旧金山考察家报》和
《罗契斯特市民主党人&纪事报》担任过评论员。发表过11部作品，包括五部非小说和小说《交易所街》，《时光飞逝》（电影卡萨布兰卡的授权续集）和2004年获得由美国出版家协会主办的)美国图书奖的《圣徒》。他的小说《敌意》，曾登上纽约时报畅销书排行榜，并在Kindle上排名第一。随后于2010年9月相继发表了续篇《早期预警》。与编剧Gail Parent在2002年合作发表的迪士尼频道原创电影《女兵报到》，是当时网络历史上收视率最高的节目。
Michael Walsh is a journalist, author, and screenwriter, whose work includes six novels, seven works of nonfiction, and a hit Disney movie. The former classical music critic of Time magazine, he is now a regular contributor of political and cultural commentary to PJ Media and National Review, and an occasional op-ed columnist for the New York Post. Among his awards are the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music criticism, in 1979, and the American Books Awards prize for fiction for his gangster novel, And All the Saints, in 2004.
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