The reactionary mind : conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin / / Corey Robin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824931003321
• Autore: Robin Corey <1967->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 0-19-991188-6; 0-19-025255-3; 1-283-23225-1; 9786613232250; 0-19-979393-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.52
• Soggetti: Conservatism - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Profiles in reaction -- Conservatism and counterrevolution -- The first counterrevolutionary -- Garbage and gravitas -- Out of place -- The ex-cons -- Not your daddy's (or even your granddaddy's) conservative -- Virtues of violence -- A color-coded genocide -- Remembrance of empires past -- Protocols of machismo -- Title tk 204 -- Easy to be hard.
• Sommario/riassunto: Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is ""boring,"" said the founding father of the American right. ""Devoting your life to it,"" as conservatives do, ""is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex."" With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism, and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them, what excites them? Tracing conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution, Robin argues that the right is fundamentally in