The Ideology of Political Reactionaries offers a new perspective on
the beliefs reactionaries share, presenting a theory of reactionary
ideology in the process. Rather than taking self-contradictions in
the reactionary imagination as a reason for diminishment,
complexity is taken as a challenge. The book argues that the
features that unite reactionaries lie in rhetoric. Reactionaries
make three persuasive appeals: to decadence, conspiracy, and
indignation. They also display some recurrent styles. The book’s
rhetorical approach entails a critique of the alternative
approaches to reactionary politics (dubbed as ‘dispositional’,
‘sociological’, and ‘conceptual’). At the heart of the book
is the textual analysis of the writings of a range of figures who
are chosen in deliberate diversity and who have interacted with
political audiences in different eras and settings: Edmund Burke,
Joseph de Maistre, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Éric
Zemmour, Joe McCarthy, Anders Breivik, and Nigel Farage. Analysis
of their writings helps the book to reckon with some particular
puzzles of ideologies and rhetoric. These puzzles include the
proximity of reactionaries to conservatism, the ambiguity of their
nostalgia, the myth of their essential charisma, and the apparent
fetishisation of facts. The Ideology of Political Reactionaries
ought to interest anyone concerned about current ideological trends
and, in particular, students and scholars of politics and history.
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Innovations in Political Theory |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Richard Shorten
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
270 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-212510-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-03-212510-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781032125107 |
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