The Reactionary Mind : Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory
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Author: Corey Robin ISBN: 9780199911882
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication: August 12, 2011
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA Language: English
Author: Corey Robin
ISBN: 9780199911882
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication: August 12, 2011
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English

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 "counterrevolutionary experience": the need to defend power and privilege against movements demanding freedom and equality. Abhorring stasis conservatives have opted for a dynamic conception of politics and society--one that involves self-transformation violence and war. This capacity for reinvention has been crucial 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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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 "counterrevolutionary experience": the need to defend power and privilege against movements demanding freedom and equality. Abhorring stasis conservatives have opted for a dynamic conception of politics and society--one that involves self-transformation violence and war. This capacity for reinvention has been crucial 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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