Reactionary Mind Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

Name: Reactionary Mind Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
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ISBN: 9780199959112

ISBN-10: 0199959110

ISBN-13: 9780199959112

Edition: 2013

Authors: Corey Robin

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Corey Robin is Associate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and the author of the award-winning Fear: The History of a Political Idea .



Acknowledgments


Epigraph


Introduction



Profiles in Reaction



Conservatism and Counterrevolution



The First Counterrevolutionary



Garbage and Gravitas



Inside Out



The Ex-Cons



Affirmative Action Baby



Virtues of Violence



A Color-Coded Genocide



Remembrance of Empires Past



Protocols of Machismo



Potomac Fever



Easy to Be Hard


Conclusion


Notes


Index