Contents
How to Read This Book vii
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction: The Production of Idiocy
1
1. The Logic of Behavior 16
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Extasis: The Context of Behavior 43
3. The Logic of Abstraction 64
4. The Desperate Debtor and the
Tradition of Authenticity 85
5. Self-Possession and the Estrangement of Power:
The American Example 118
The Political Psychology of Permission 143
Afterword 157
Reference Titles Used in Source Notes
138
Bibliography 161
Index 167