The Ideology of Political Reactionaries Shorten Richard
The Ideology of Political Reactionaries Shorten Richard The Ideology of Political Reactionaries offers a new perspective on the beliefs reactionaries share, presenting a theory of reactionary…
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The Ideology of Political Reactionaries Shorten Richard
The Ideology of Political Reactionaries offers a new perspective on the beliefs reactionaries share, presenting a theory of reactionary ideology in the process. Reactionaries make three persuasive appeals: to decadence, conspiracy, and indignation. Rather than taking self-contradictions in the reactionary imagination as a reason for diminishment, complexity is taken as a challenge.The book argues that the features that unite reactionaries lie in rhetoric.
The book's rhetorical approach entails a critique of the alternative approaches to reactionary politics (dubbed as 'dispositional', 'sociological', and 'conceptual'). They also display some recurrent styles. At the heart of the book is the textual analysis of the writings of a range of figures who are chosen in deliberate diversity and who have interacted with political audiences in different eras and settings:
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