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Author Shorten, Richard

Title The Ideology of Political Reactionaries
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (285 p.)
Series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory Ser
Routledge Innovations in Political Theory Ser
Contents Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Reactionaries From Dispositions to Rhetoric -- Reviving 'Reaction' -- A Dispositional Approach -- A Sociological Approach -- A Conceptual Approach -- Reviving Rhetoric -- How Not to Study Reactionary Rhetoric -- The Diatribe -- Three Reactionary Pillars -- Notes -- References -- Part I Indignation: The Pathos of Reaction -- 1 Edmund Burke and Joseph De Maistre -- Reflections On the Revolution in France
Introducing France to Englishmen -- Narrating the Unfolding Present -- Demonstrating in Three Stages -- Denouncing One's Own -- Denouncing History -- Remembering the Good Society -- Ending in Exhaustion -- Considerations On France -- Introducing God to Frenchmen -- Narrating Divine Punishment -- Demonstrating and Refuting -- Admonishing Frenchmen (And Oneself?) -- Comprehending Sacrifice -- Three Refutations -- Ending Irritably -- Why the Divide Between Reactionaries and Conservatives Is Blurred -- Notes -- References -- 2 Sarah Palin and Donald Trump -- America By Heart
Introducing By 'Real' People -- Narrating 'Confidence' in America (And Self) -- Demonstrating Through Repetition -- A Multipurpose Argument -- Over-Citing and Often 'Mimicking' -- Ending By Flat Anecdote -- Crippled America -- Introducing Anger (In Word and Image) -- Making EVERYTHING Great Again (Without a Plan) -- Demonstrating By Digressing -- Blaming Perceptions -- Blaming Migrants -- Ending By Brash Anecdote -- Getting Reaction's Emotion Right -- Notes -- References -- Part II Decadence: The Logos of Reaction -- 3 Adolf Hitler and Nazism -- Mein Kampf -- Introducing Destiny (And Sacrifice)
Narrating 'The Social Question' and 'The Jewish Question' -- Proof of Collapse -- From Vienna to Berlin (Some Symptoms) -- The Mixing of the Blood (A Diagnosis) -- A Defiant Ending -- Why Reactionaries Are Not Illogical -- Notes -- References -- 4 Éric Zemmour and Les Nouveaux Réactionnaires -- Le Suicide Français -- Introducing the National Story -- Narrating the Death of the Father -- Proof of Diminishment -- From Sex to Football to Vichy (Some Symptoms) -- Revenge of the Colonials (In Lieu of a Diagnosis) -- A Fatalistic Ending? -- The Myth of Reaction's Essential Nostalgia -- Notes
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography References -- Part III Conspiracy: The Ethos of Reaction -- 5 Senator Joe McCarthy -- The Fight for America -- Introducing By Compère -- Narrating By Big Reveal -- Proving and Refuting By Q&A -- Lining-Up Rogues, Repeating the Question -- Fallacies of Conspiracy -- Innuendo, a Gambler's Thinking, and Gossip -- Go Forth and Exfiltrate -- How Reactionaries Ask for Our Trust -- Note -- References -- 6 Anders Breivik -- 2083 - A European Declaration of Independence -- Setting Out an Instruction Manual -- Demonstrating 'What You Need to Know' -- The Conspirators of Cultural Marxism And/or Islam
Notes Appeal to Mathematical Arguments
Subject Rhetoric -- Political aspects
Rhetoric, Ancient
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000518412
1000518418