The Rhetoric of ReactionHarvard University Press, 1.3.1991 - 224 sivua With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two hundred years. He draws his examples from three successive waves of reactive thought that arose in response to the liberal ideas of the French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, to democratization and the drive toward universal suffrage in the nineteenth century, and to the welfare state in our own century. In each case he identifies three principal arguments invariably used--the theses of perversity, futility, and jeopardy. He illustrates these propositions by citing writers across the centuries from Alexis de Tocqueville to George Stigler, Herbert Spencer to Jay Forrester, Edmund Burke to Charles Murray. Finally, in a lightning turnabout, he shows that progressives are frequently apt to employ closely related rhetorical postures, which are as biased as their reactionary counterparts. |
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One Two Hundered Years of Reactionary Rhetoric | 1 |
Two The Perversity Thesis | 11 |
Three The Futility Thesis | 43 |
Four The Jeopardy Thesis | 81 |
Five The Three Theses Compared and Combined | 133 |
Six From Reactionary to Progressive Rhetoric | 149 |
Seven Beyond Intransigence | 164 |
Notes | 173 |
Acknowledgments | 187 |
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The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy Albert O. Hirschman Rajoitettu esikatselu - 1991 |
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