Hailed as "the book that predicted Trump" by The New Yorker and `one of the more influential political works of the last decade" by The Washington Monthly, Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind offers an indispensable guide to contemporary politics and a startling reassessment of a centuries-old tradition. In this second edition of The Reactionary Mind, revised and extended to reflect Donald Trump's election and first months in office, Robin shows that Trump is not a break with the conservative tradition, but its fulfillment. Through a brilliant reading of Trump's speeches and writings, Robin shows that the madness and mayhem of the American president reflect a long tradition of right-wing politics, extending from Edmund Burke and Friedrich Nietzsche to Antonin Scalia and Ayn Rand. But, in a final twist, Robin argues that that politics is weaker than most people realize. Trump's serial failures in the White House are not simply his own ; they are symptoms of the right's flagging energies and mounting incoherence. Robin demonstrates here his trademark gifts as a reader : an antenna for the unanticipated argument, an acute historical sensibility about what is old and new in the conservative tradition, and a flair for innovative and heterodox interpretations.

The Reactionary Mind - Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump

Crainte de la récession, spectre de la guerre, menace du terrorisme : la peur a toujours été au fil des siècles une arme politique redoutable et un instrument de répression exemplaire. De l'Italie médiévale à l'Amérique contemporaine, Patrick Boucheron et Corey Robin interrogent tour à tour les divers usages d'une émotion ancestrale. Conçu à partir d'une rencontre dans le cadre du festival " Mode d'emploi ", organisé par la Villa Gillet en novembre 2014, ce livre propose une ouverture par Renaud Payre, un dialogue réagencé et révisé où alternent les voix de Patrick Boucheron et de Corey Robin, enfin un post-scriptum inédit de la main de chacun des deux intervenants.

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