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The Reactionary Mind - Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (Paperback)
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The Reactionary Mind - Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (Paperback)
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Loot Price R593
Discovery Miles 5 930
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Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin.
Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American
right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is
horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex."
With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray
into the conservative mind. What is conservatism, and what's truly
at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them, what excites
them? Tracing conservatism back to its roots in the reaction
against the French Revolution, Robin argues that the right is
fundamentally inspired by a hostility to emancipating the lower
orders. Some conservatives endorse the free market, others oppose
it. Some criticize the state, others celebrate it. Underlying these
differences is the impulse to defend power and privilege against
movements demanding freedom and equality. Despite their opposition
to these movements, conservatives favor a dynamic conception of
politics and society-one that involves self-transformation,
violence, and war. They are also highly adaptive to new challenges
and circumstances. This partiality to violence and capacity for
reinvention has been critical to their success. 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.
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