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The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction [Audiobook] download free by Mark Lilla

The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction Audiobook download free by Mark Lilla
  • Listen audiobook: The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
  • Author: Mark Lilla
  • Release date: 2016/3/30
  • Publisher: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Religious
  • ISBN: 9781590179024
  • Rating: 9.99 of 10
  • Votes: 144
  • Review by: Zahir Walker
  • Review rating: 8.25 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/15
  • Duration: 2H9M16S in 256 kbps (35.2 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-13
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, MP3, OPUS, MPEG4, WAV (compression AZW3, RAR, ZIP, CBC, Z, TAR.BZ, TBZ2)
  • Total pages original book: 176
  • Includes a PDF summary of 16 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 12M35S (3.2 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 motivated by highly developed ideas. Lilla begins 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 since the French Revolution, and shows how these narratives are employed 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 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.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Philosophy, Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects, Political Science & Theory, Religion & Politics, Philosophy Of Religion, Social & Political Philosophy
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 12.06 USD
  • Dimensions: 140x204x11mm
  • Weight: 206g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: New York, United States

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