The Reactionary Mind - Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump

Publié par Oxford University Press, le 01 novembre 2017

330 pages

Résumé

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.

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The Reactionary Mind - Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump

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