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The Reactionary Mind
- Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
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In The Reactionary Mind, Robin traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution. He argues that the right was inspired, and is still united, by its hostility to emancipating the lower orders. Some conservatives endorse the free market; others oppose it. Some criticize the state; others celebrate it. Underlying these differences is the impulse to defend power and privilege against movements demanding freedom and equality - while simultaneously making populist appeals to the masses. Despite their opposition to these movements, conservatives favor a dynamic conception of politics and society - one that involves self-transformation, violence, and war. They are also highly adaptive to new challenges and circumstances. This partiality to violence and capacity for reinvention have been critical to their success.
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There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American politics that has endured since our nation’s birth. In The Reactionary Spirit, Beauchamp explains what he calls the reactionary spirit: as strides towards true democracy are made, there is always a faction that reacts by seeking to undermine them and thereby resist change. Brilliantly combining political history and reportage, Beauchamp reveals how the United States was the birthplace of this strange and harrowing authoritarian style, and why we’re now seeing its evolution in diverse nations including Hungary, Israel, and India.
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Well told tale about extremism on the right.
- De Timothy Hoff en 07-20-24
De: Zack Beauchamp
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The Enlightenment That Failed
- Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830
- De: Jonathan I. Israel
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
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The Enlightenment That Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) in numerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed.
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Enlightened radical
- De Anonymous User en 07-02-22
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On Politics
- A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
- De: Alan Ryan
- Narrado por: David Stifel
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Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton's dictum that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" or explicating John Stuart Mill's contention that it is "better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied," Alan Ryan evokes the lives and minds of our greatest thinkers in a way that makes hearing about them a transcendent experience.
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Simply no book quite like this
- De Jack Raineri en 12-21-22
De: Alan Ryan
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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
- De: Corey Robin
- Narrado por: Larry Herron
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Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. Here are some things they don’t know: Thomas is a Black nationalist. In college he memorized the speeches of Malcolm X. He believes white people are incurably racist. Corey Robin - one of the foremost analysts of the right - delves deeply into both Thomas’s biography and his jurisprudence, masterfully reading his Supreme Court opinions against the backdrop of his autobiographical and political writings and speeches.
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The single worst book ever written.
- De jacob en 10-06-19
De: Corey Robin
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American Fascists
- The Christian Right and the War on America
- De: Chris Hedges, Eunice Wong
- Narrado por: Chris Hedges, Eunice Wong
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Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other televangelists first spoke of the United States being a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedoms and our way of life.
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Please, read or listen to this book.
- De D en 06-22-07
De: Chris Hedges, y otros
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The Culture of Narcissism
- American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
- De: Christopher Lasch
- Narrado por: Barry Press
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When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a best seller.
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Analysis from the 1970's good bad and ugly.
- De Carl A. Gallozzi en 02-24-20
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Democracy at Work
- A Cure for Capitalism
- De: Richard D. Wolff
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
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Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.
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- De Brandon en 03-07-19
De: Richard D. Wolff
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The Life of the Mind
- De: Hannah Arendt
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
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Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this work was planned as three volumes that would explore the activities of the mind considered by Arendt to be fundamental. What emerged is a rich, challenging analysis of human mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging.
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- De angela cozea en 11-20-19
De: Hannah Arendt
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Metternich
- Strategist and Visionary
- De: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
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Metternich has a reputation as the epitome of reactionary conservatism. Historians treat him as the archenemy of progress, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power as the dominant European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century to stifle liberalism, suppress national independence, and oppose the dreams of social change that inspired the revolutionaries of 1848. Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized.
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Very intensely researched
- De PDH en 04-11-23
De: Wolfram Siemann, y otros
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The Anatomy of Fascism
- De: Robert O. Paxton
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
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What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete, what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up "enemies of the state", through Mussolini's rise to power, to Germany's fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not others.
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Great book for getting a clearer idea of fascism
- De Amazon Customer en 11-02-17
De: Robert O. Paxton
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Age of Anger
- A History of the Present
- De: Pankaj Mishra
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
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How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the 18th century before leading us to the present.
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Disappointing
- De AR en 04-28-17
De: Pankaj Mishra
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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
- De: Christopher Lasch
- Narrado por: David de Vries
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In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset ( The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place.
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The last twenty years proves the author right
- De Del Lewis-Chia en 08-08-20
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Fascism
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Kevin Passmore
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
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Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition while maintaining a fascination with technology? And that preaches violence in the name of an ordered society? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilliantly unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world
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Brings Clarity to a Resurging Topic
- De Fernanda Araujo en 03-24-20
De: Kevin Passmore
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Existentialism
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Thomas Flynn
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
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One of the leading philosophical movements of the 20th century, existentialism has had more impact on literature and the arts than any other school of thought. Focusing on the leading figures of existentialism, including Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Camus, Thomas Flynn offers a concise account of existentialism, explaining the key themes of individuality, free will, and personal responsibility, which marked the movement as a way of life, not just a way of thinking.
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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
- De: David Harvey
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
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To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work - and what makes it fail - is crucial to understanding its long-term health and the vast implications for the global economy that go along with it.
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Amazing and easy to understand
- De dr yeyo en 07-07-24
De: David Harvey
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The Conservative Mind
- From Burke to Eliot
- De: Russell Kirk
- Narrado por: Phillip Davidson
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Kirk defines "the conservative mind" by examining such brilliant men as Edmund Burke, James Fenimore Cooper, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benjamin Disraeli, Cardinal Newman, George Santayana, and finally, T.S. Eliot. Vigorously written, the book represents conservatism as an ideology born of sound intellectual traditions.
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An interim review
- De James en 09-18-09
De: Russell Kirk
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
- De: David Harvey
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage.
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Monotone reader
- De Elizabeth en 09-28-17
De: David Harvey
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Bring the War Home
- The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
- De: Kathleen Belew
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
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The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out - with military precision - an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
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The reader sounds like a robot
- De C. Fox en 05-12-19
De: Kathleen Belew
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- Timothy L. Swabb
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Very instructive.
Cory Robin examines a broad range of conservative thought and finds the thread running through each apparently new and shifting ethos. Each time, Robin says, conservatives learn from the left, adapt, and recast their belief in hierarchy in the terms used by the left.
Conservatism is counter-revolutionary, but it is not an attempt to turn back the clock. If anything, conservative counter-revolutionaries have contempt for the old regime that grew soft and allowed itself to be overthrown, But conservatism again and again invents new ways to sell hierarchy to a new age.
If the divine right of kings is abandoned, they portray monarchy as the most rationale system. If freedom is what people want, they complain about the tyranny of the poor and dispossessed, who are taking away the freedoms of the silent majority.
If it’s no longer acceptable to assert white male privilege, they recast racism and sexism as religious beliefs in private (white) schools and the right of women to stay at home and be cared for by men. If violence is no longer fashionable, they talk of business as a kind of war and entrepreneurs and CEOs as generals who must have obedient troops, and countries who have a patriotic duty to support businesses and business leaders.
Samuel Johnson once said Republicans want to level down so they are equal to the King, but they don’t want to level up so they are no better than their servants. So the key to making conservatism popular is to convince people that true enforced equality will hurt them by leveling up more than it helps them by leveling down.
Equality will hurt their freedoms more than it helps. It’s better to be a favored subject of benevolent rulers than to be reduced to the level of the lowest of the low. That’s the sales pitch, anyway. And it’s the reason millions of people who are not highly educated or affluent, the people Democrats think they are helping, are voting Republican.
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- Josh Hughes
- 10-25-19
Insightful and Timely
This book took me on a journey from the origins of right wing conservatism to the Trump era and left me with a new understanding of reactionary politics.
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- Lilheart17
- 12-06-23
Brilliant author, slowish text
I love political philosophy and this book is full of it, but it dwells for a long time on Burke and his conception of the sublime, which I found too poetic and abstract for my taste. I vastly preferred the more modern analyses in the final chapters, particularly covering the last 50 years, since I know the history better, and the philosophy was more tangible, I would love to see another book from Robins that focuses more on the parallel between modern conservatives and their counterparts from centuries past, rather than deep dives of the earlier thinkers whose history I’m not as familiar with (and would take a much longer book to put into context). I love Robins’ appearances to talk about this book on YouTube and podcasts, where he does an excellent job of distilling down its main points.
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- Just Curious
- 03-02-20
An Important Book, but a Sub-Optimal Reader...
Corey Robin makes a first-class contribution to political literature in this explanation of how and why "conservatives" think the way they do...Too bad the narrator wasn't up for this particular job...Listen to the sample and make your own decision...Thanks!
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- Kevin Cobb
- 08-10-24
Rich, accurate, predictive
This is an authoritative book that you will want to reread. Very concise, densely packed, yet easily readable and smartly designed.
It will expand your view of the reactionary/conservative ideology. Tough and serious conservatives should read this as well. If you are academic, I do not think you will disagree with many of his points, and may learn a great deal about where you’re coming from and going.
I think it is fair and realistic, though preferring a Liberal-Left orientation.
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- Todd P.
- 11-30-19
Interesting, a bit disorganized
This books responds to a need. What's been needed is a theoretical elaboration of political conservatism. There have been plenty of those but, for the most part, they have been provided by conservatives so they were partisan and they were attempting to redefine the movement.
What Corey Robin provides is a survey of conservative theory and some practice. In chronological order, Robin takes his survey through Hobbes, Burke, Nietzsche, Hayek and Austrian school, mid-century American reaction, Ayn Rand, Bush-era neocon warmongering, Scalia, and Trump. Robin posits a unifying definition of reaction throughout.
The biggest shortcoming is the episodic nature of the survey. As this plays out throughout the book, the chronology is not as clean as it should be and the consistency of the episodes changes throughout the survey. For instance, after moving on from Burke, Robin circles back to him in subsequent chapters for additional excursions. This time and space would have been better spent flushing out one of the main premises of the second half of the book, where Robin posits two strains of reactionary types, following in the lineage of Nietzsche and the militaristic type on the one hand and on the other hand the Austrian school and the captain of industry entrepreneur type.
Despite these shortcomings, it is still an enjoyable book. Robin was responding to a need and he contributed to the literature on conservatism and reaction by do so. While he didn't write the definitive guide to conservatism and reaction, he did provide an edifying and at times stimulating tome.
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- Terra Jones
- 02-07-24
great analysis but needs to better distinguish quotes
it might have helped if there was a separate reader for quotes. I've seen that in other books.
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- Will2Combat
- 04-10-19
This is a brilliant book.
In short if you want to understand Conservatism not in the terms it prefers but from the level of it's DNA I don't know if there is better than this. This book is insightful, direct, and deeply thought out. It isn't about looking for some mystical, morally lazy middle ground it's about defining what Conservatism wants and how it acts. Pair it with Bob Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians" and you'll have the essence of Conservatism in it's starkest relief. This is a research document not an editorial, I can't recommend it enough.
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- David Pearce
- 06-10-21
All that’s missing is a Marxian class critique in this context
Simply excellent, a great shortcut to much knowledge on all this violent Right-wing nonsense. This world is a world built by the conservativism & reactionaries. They want hierarchy, not justice. Rich overlords, not less people above them. Someone to call the n-word, not for the dispossessed to do better. Remember that conservativism will always adopt popular language to serve power. US Democratic Party liberalism is partner here, not opposed. Winning with violence maintains status quo, not arguments, virtue or “how things should be.” If you are of the True Left, a socialist, a communist or whatnot you should read this book especially if you are married to any notions of nonviolence, “ideological diversity is best” & technology as progress. Also, f*** the police.
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- Murdocc
- 03-08-19
Updated in 2016/17, but already far our of date.
the pace at which things have changed in the last two years render this book moot as an insight into modern conservatism. but it is interesting to learn its history.
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