The reactionary mind : conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump / Corey Robin.
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...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Part 1. Reaction: A Primer
- The private life of power
- On counterrevolution
- The soul of violence
- Part 2. Europe's Old Regimes
- The first counterrevolutionary
- Burke's market value
- In Nietzsche's margins
- Part 3. American Vistas
- Metaphysics and chewing gum
- The prince as pariah
- Remembrance of empires past
- Affirmative action baby
- A show about nothing.