{"product_id":"the-ideology-of-political-reactionaries-richard-shorten-9781032122700","title":"The Ideology of Political Reactionaries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ideology of Political Reactionaries \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a new perspective on the beliefs reactionaries share, presenting a theory of reactionary ideology in the process. Rather than taking self-contradictions in the reactionary imagination as a reason for diminishment, complexity is taken as a challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book argues that the features that unite reactionaries lie in rhetoric. Reactionaries make three persuasive appeals: to decadence, conspiracy, and indignation. They also display some recurrent styles. The book's rhetorical approach entails a critique of the alternative approaches to reactionary politics (dubbed as 'dispositional', 'sociological', and 'conceptual'). 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: Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, ﾉric Zemmour, Joe McCarthy, Anders Breivik, and Nigel Farage. Analysis of their writings helps the book to reckon with some particular puzzles of ideologies and rhetoric. These puzzles include the proximity of reactionaries to conservatism, the ambiguity of their nostalgia, the myth of their essential charisma, and the apparent fetishisation of facts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ideology of Political Reactionaries \u003c\/i\u003eought to interest anyone concerned about current ideological trends and, in particular, students and scholars of politics and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Shorten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032122706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032122700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Richard Shorten","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44066891497727,"sku":"9781032122700","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_54778bcf-e8ac-4dbd-8384-c356180fd16b.jpg?v=1685409944","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ideology-of-political-reactionaries-richard-shorten-9781032122700","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}