Format:
1 online resource (305 pages)
ISBN:
9780199793938
Content:
Tracing conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution, Corey Robin argues that the right is fundamentally inspired by a hostility to emancipating the lower orders. Written by a keen, highly regarded observer of the contemporary political scene, The Reactionary Mind ranges widely, from Edmund Burke to Antonin Scalia, from John C. Calhoun to Ayn Rand. It advances the notion that all rightwing ideologies, from the eighteenth century through today, are historical improvisations on a theme: the felt experience of having power, seeing it threatened, and trying to win it back.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- Part 1 Profiles in Reaction -- 1. Conservatism and Counterrevolution -- 2. The First Counterrevolutionary -- 3. Garbage and Gravitas -- 4. Inside Out -- 5. The Ex-Cons -- 6. Affirmative Action Baby -- Part 2 Virtues of Violence -- 7. A Color-Coded Genocide -- 8. Remembrance of Empires Past -- 9. Protocols of Machismo -- 10. Potomac Fever -- 11. Easy to Be Hard -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199793747
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199793747
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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Political Science
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