Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Why modernity is rationalized lust : Why biography is destiny -- Samoa lost : Margaret Mead, cultural relativism, and the guilty imagination -- Blue Lagoon social studies -- Homosexual as subversive : the double life of Sir Anthony Blunt -- Stanley and Jane's excellent adventure : or, Why politically correct professors hate Western civilization -- The case agaisnt Kinsey -- Liberal guilt cookies -- Cubism as sexual loathing : the case against Picasso -- Sigmund and Minna and Carl and Sabina : the birth of psychoanalysis out of the personal lives of its founders -- Luther's enduring legacy -- Epilogue: Moral realism : the ultimate deconstruction.

In this groundbreaking new book, Jones shows how some of the major determining leaders in modern thought and culture have rationalized their own immoral behavior and projected it onto a universal canvas. The main thesis of this book is that, in the intellectual life, there are only two ultimate alternatives: either the thinker conforms desire to truth or he conforms truth to desire. In the last one hundred years, the western cultural elite embarked upon a project which entailed the reversal of the values of the intellectual life so that truth would be subjected to desire as the final criterion of intellectual value. In looking at recent biographies of such major moderns as Freud, Kinsey, Keynes, Margaret Mead, Picasso, and others, there is a remarkable similarity between their lives and thought. After becoming involved in sexual license early on, they invariably chose an ideology or art form which subordinated reality to the exigencies of their sexual misbehavior.

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