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The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction

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 | #5540816 in Books |  2017-03-14 | Formats: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged | Original language:English |  5.30 x1.10 x6.40l, | Running time: 4 Hours | Binding: Audio CD

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||46 of 49 people found the following review helpful.| A solid set of essays, but it could have a lot more|By C. D. Varn|While some will read this as a 'history of reaction,' this insightful and easily digested volume of essays is more like several essays on the subject. Generally, following a format related to book views and discussions in the history of ideas, collected around the central theme. I was little surprised to find| |"[Mark Lilla] is a fantastically gifted essayist, and this short volume collects the best of his recent work�not simply on political reaction or revolution, but on subjects including Judaism, Gnosticism, Islam, and Don Quixote.� ---Publishers Weekly|

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 r...

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