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The Shipwrecked Mind : On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla (2016, Trade Paperback)

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Shipwrecked Mind : On Political Reaction, Paperback by Lilla, Mark, ISBN 1590179021, ISBN-13 9781590179024, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Examines the philosophical evolution of prominent political reactionaries and how they have shaped history, and evaluates the role of reactionary thought in contemporary politics.

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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 inthe 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 thetragicomic 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.

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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590179021
ISBN-13
9781590179024
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Shipwrecked Mind : on Political Reaction
Author
Mark Lilla
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, Political, Social Psychology, Essays, Religion, Politics & State, Sociology of Religion
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Psychology, Religion, Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
168 Pages

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8.2in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.3 Oz

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Ja71.L55 2016
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"Mark Lilla's graceful, elegant, and concise appraisals of a variety of reactionary figures could not be more timely." --Andrew Sullivan "Mark Lilla is one of America's foremost intellectuals and he has written an essential book. He argues that we live in an age when revolutionary ideas have lost their allure but reactionary ideas--that protest and reject core elements of the modern world--are gaining strength. As you read these essays, you will be reminded that ideas matter. John Maynard Keynes once explained that 'madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.' To make sense of the madmen, you need first to understand the scribblers." --Fareed Zakaria "Mark Lilla leads us on a fascinating tour of the modern reactionary mind, shining a fresh light on the ideas and beliefs of a wide range of thinkers, both famous and forgotten. Engagingly written and impressively erudite, this is intellectual biography at its finest." --Robert Kagan "At a time when the United States is dealing with radical populism and Europe is beset with a new far right, Mark Lilla's The Shipwrecked Mind is the book to read for a more profound understanding of what ails us." --E.J. Dionne "Mark Lilla is the model of an engaged intellectual. These essays brilliantly explore the unhappy present in the light of history and philosophy." --George Packer "Philosophically timely and politically urgent." --Avishai Margalit "Lilla's fascinating exploration of political conservatism shows how various so-called reactionaries have helped shape history....In revealing the mechanics of political reaction, Lilla approaches the subject through a unique religious lens. He 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 "Though the revolutionary impulse has been analyzed to the point of overkill, Lilla suggests that its opposite pole has been all but ignored....Lilla provides a welcome corrective in restoring analytical balance." -- Kirkus "In trenchant prose, [Lilla's] work combines a shrewd assessment of French current events with an impressive command of French history and literature--a rare example of commentary that is at once journalistic and scholarly, and deeply informed." --Overseas Press Club citation for Best Commentary on International News, Praise for The Reckless Mind (NYRB): "This is important. Lilla's short, elegant and readable book is about what happens when philosophers get tangled up in the real world. It is also a matter of recognizing that the world is in the shape that it is because of the influence of the most rarefied of minds." --Nicolas Lezard, The Guardian , Paperback of the Week "Lilla's accessible, summary look at eight 20th-century thinkers is a compilation of cautionary tales...shrewd advice...a very canny book showing us how not to think and chew politics at the same time." -- Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Mark Lilla is right now America's most brilliant commentator on the European intellectuals--lucid and deep at the same time, which is no small feat." --Paul Berman Praise for The Stillborn God : "If Lilla castigates liberal theology for its naïveté, he also praises America and Western Europe for simultaneously separating religion from politics, creating space for religion, and staving off sectarian violence and theocracy. Lilla's work, which will influence discussions of politics and theology for the next generation, makes clear how remarkable an accomplishment that is." --Publishers Weekly , starred review "Riveting, engrossing reading, even though it is history-of-philosophy." -- Booklist , starred review
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2016-011770
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New book by established intellectual historian arrived in new condition as advertised. The volume makes for compelling reading in this "reactionary" rather than conservative day and age. Readers will gain an understanding of the older intellectual foundations, many of these unfamiliar, of nostalgia for a putatively preferable past era.
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