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005			20180722223752.0
008			160421s2016 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a 2016011770
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035			_a(OCoLC)947190932
037			_bRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 _nSAN 201-3975
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100	1		_aLilla, Mark, _eauthor. _9320725
245	1	4	_aThe shipwrecked mind : _bon political reaction / _cMark Lilla.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew York Review Books, _c[2016]
300			_axxi, 145 pages ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aNew York review books
520			_a"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 conservatives 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aIntroduction. 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.
650		0	_aPolitical science _xPhilosophy. _932755
650		0	_aPolitical psychology. _9122593
650		0	_aReligion and politics. _998252
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