TY - BOOK AU - S.Kochin,Michael AU - Spektorowski,Alberto TI - Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline T2 - Faux Titre Series SN - 9789004498136 AV - PN56.N55 M534 2022 U1 - 745.05 PY - 2021/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Houellebecq, Michel.-Soumission KW - Houellebecq, Michel-Criticism and interpretation KW - Nihilism in literature KW - France-Intellectual life-21st century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Submission and Decline: Houellebecq as Cassandra and Jester -- Chapter 2 Michel Houellebecq and the "Political Triangle": The Republic, the Radical Right, and the "Ultimate Other" -- Chapter 3 The Mother of Invention: Theo van Gogh in Houellebecq's Rearview Mirror -- Chapter 4 Submission and the Possibility of Low-Intensity Totalitarianism in France -- Chapter 5 Western Decline and the Overcoming of the Metaphysical Stage in Houellebecq's Fiction -- Chapter 6 Michel Houellebecq's Comparative Political Science of Religion -- Chapter 7 Submission to Peace, and Polygamy: Should the French Acquiesce to Houellebecq's Dream of a New Islam? -- Chapter 8 The Pleasures of Decay in Houellebecq's Submission -- Chapter 9 Dissociation, Disavowal, and Despair in Houellebecq's Submission -- Chapter 10 Polygamy and the Political Problem of Eros in Houellebecq's Submission -- Index N2 - When fiction and reality meet: Probably no contemporary novel has shaped reality as powerfully Houellebeck's Submission. No previous analysis of Submission is as deep and encompassing as this volume written by experts on politics and literature UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6808246 ER -