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100 1  Lilla, Mark,|eauthor 
245 14 The shipwrecked mind :|bon political reaction /|cby Mark 
       Lilla 
264  1 New York :|bNew York Review Books,|c[2016] 
300    145 pages 
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337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  New York review books 
520    "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 inthe 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 thetragicomic 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"--|cProvided by publisher 
650  0 Political science 
650  0 Philosophy 
650  7 Political psychology.|2fast 
650  7 Political science|xPhilosophy.|2fast 
650  7 Religion and politics.|2fast 
650  7 Statsvetenskap|2sao 
650  7 Filosofi|2sao 
653    Konservatism 
653    Politik 
653    Religiösa aspekter 
653    Religion och politik 
830  0 New York review books 
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