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The shipwrecked mind : on political reaction, Mark Lilla

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"We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing present, and suffering from nostalgia for an idealized past and an apocalyptic fear that history is rushing toward catastrophe. And like the revolutionary his political engagements are motived by highly developed ideas. Lilla unveils the structure of reactionary thinking, beginning with three twentieth-century philosophers--Franz Rosenzweig, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss --who attributed the problems of modern society to a break in the history of ideas and promoted a return to earlier modes of thought. He then examines the enduring power of grand historical narratives of betrayal to shape political outlooks ever since the French Revolution. These narratives are employed to serve different, and sometimes expressly opposed, ends. They appear in the writings of Europe's right-wing cultural pessimists and Maoist neocommunists, American theoconservatives fantasizing about the harmony of medieval Catholic society and radical Islamists seeking to restore a vanished Muslim caliphate. The revolutionary spirit that inspired political movements across the world for two centuries may have died out. But the spirit of reaction that rose to meet it has survived and is proving just as formidable a historical force. We live in an age when the tragicomic nostalgia of Don Quixote for a lost golden age has been transformed into a potent and sometimes deadly weapon. Mark Lilla helps us to understand why"--
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eng
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xxi, 145 pages
Contents
  • Introduction. The shipwrecked mind
  • Thinkers. The battle for religion: Franz Rosenzweig
  • The immanent eschaton: Eric Voegelin
  • Athens and Chicago: Leo Strauss
  • Currents. From Luther to Walmart
  • From Mao to Saint Paul
  • Events. Paris, January 2015
  • Afterword. The knight and the caliph
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9781590179024
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The shipwrecked mind : on political reaction
Title
The shipwrecked mind
Title remainder
on political reaction
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Mark Lilla
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Language
eng
Summary
"We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing present, and suffering from nostalgia for an idealized past and an apocalyptic fear that history is rushing toward catastrophe. And like the revolutionary his political engagements are motived by highly developed ideas. Lilla unveils the structure of reactionary thinking, beginning with three twentieth-century philosophers--Franz Rosenzweig, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss --who attributed the problems of modern society to a break in the history of ideas and promoted a return to earlier modes of thought. He then examines the enduring power of grand historical narratives of betrayal to shape political outlooks ever since the French Revolution. These narratives are employed to serve different, and sometimes expressly opposed, ends. They appear in the writings of Europe's right-wing cultural pessimists and Maoist neocommunists, American theoconservatives fantasizing about the harmony of medieval Catholic society and radical Islamists seeking to restore a vanished Muslim caliphate. The revolutionary spirit that inspired political movements across the world for two centuries may have died out. But the spirit of reaction that rose to meet it has survived and is proving just as formidable a historical force. We live in an age when the tragicomic nostalgia of Don Quixote for a lost golden age has been transformed into a potent and sometimes deadly weapon. Mark Lilla helps us to understand why"--
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Lilla, Mark
Dewey number
320.01
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no index present
LC call number
JA71
LC item number
.L55 2016
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Rosenzweig, Franz
  • Voegelin, Eric
  • Strauss, Leo
  • Political science
  • Political psychology
  • Religion and politics
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • PHILOSOPHY
  • PHILOSOPHY
  • Religion and politics
  • Political science
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • PHILOSOPHY
  • PHILOSOPHY
  • Political psychology
  • Political science
  • Religion and politics
  • Science politique
  • Religion et politique
  • Conservatisme
  • Conservatisme
  • Reaktion
  • Konservativismus
  • Politische Philosophie
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The shipwrecked mind : on political reaction, Mark Lilla
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Introduction. The shipwrecked mind -- Thinkers. The battle for religion: Franz Rosenzweig -- The immanent eschaton: Eric Voegelin -- Athens and Chicago: Leo Strauss -- Currents. From Luther to Walmart -- From Mao to Saint Paul -- Events. Paris, January 2015 -- Afterword. The knight and the caliph
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21 cm.
Extent
xxi, 145 pages
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9781590179024
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2016011770
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  • 40026357089
  • 40026573471
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The shipwrecked mind : on political reaction, Mark Lilla
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Contents
Introduction. The shipwrecked mind -- Thinkers. The battle for religion: Franz Rosenzweig -- The immanent eschaton: Eric Voegelin -- Athens and Chicago: Leo Strauss -- Currents. From Luther to Walmart -- From Mao to Saint Paul -- Events. Paris, January 2015 -- Afterword. The knight and the caliph
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ocn947190932
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
xxi, 145 pages
Isbn
9781590179024
Lccn
2016011770
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
  • 40026357089
  • 40026573471
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  • (Sirsi) i9781590179024
  • (OCoLC)947190932

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