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For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. As Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination, fear has shaped politics and culture since time immemorial--from the Garden of Eden to the Gulag Archipelago to today's headlines.

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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. Here are some things they don't know: Thomas is a black nationalist. In college he memorized the speeches of Malcolm X. He believes white people are incurably racist....

»Eines der einflussreichsten politischen Bücher des letzten Jahrzehnts.«The Washington MonthlyDer Rechtspopulismus, für den US-Präsident Trump steht, wird meist vom klassischen Konservativismus unterschieden. Zu Unrecht, wie dieses Buch zeigt. Denn alles, was den Rechtspopulismus ausmacht, gehört zum grundlegenden Ideenbestand der Konservativen seit der Französischen Revolution. Europäische Intellektuelle haben das Fundament für die amerikanis...

Robin--one of the foremost analysts of the right--delves deeply into both Thomas' biography and his jurisprudence, masterfully reading his Supreme Court opinions against the backdrop of his autobiographical and political writings and speeches. The hidden source of Thomas's conservative views, Robin argues, is a profound skepticism that racism can be overcome. overcome.

Now updated to include Trump's election and the rise of global populism, Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution.

Updated through the 2016 election and Trump's first months as president~Makes a controversial claim that the men and women of the right are united by a common political project~Written by a well-known and well-regarded observer of the contemporary political and cultural scene

Tracing conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution, Corey Robin argues that the right is fundamentally inspired by a hostility to emancipating the lower orders. Written by a keen, highly regarded observer of the contemporary political scene, The Reactionary Mind advances the notion that all rightwing ideologies, from the eighteenth century through today, are historical improvisations on a theme: the felt exper...

For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. As Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination, fear has shaped politics and culture since time immemorial--from the Garden of Eden to the Gulag Archipelago to today's headlines.