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In political science, a reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante—the previous political state of society—which the person believes possessed positive characteristics that are absent from contemporary society.
"Both [may] be looking at the same collection of stars, but one will see the image of a plough, and the other will make out a dipper. The 'stars' in a literary text are fixed, the lines that join them are variable." [18] The Iserian reader contributes to the meaning of the text, but limits are placed on this reader by the text itself.
Articles related to reactionary, persons who hold political views that favor a return to the status quo ante, the previous political state of society, which these persons believe possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society.
For example, in Laurence Sterne's novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, the narrator is using the sentimental character Yorick as a device to critique the obligation of morality, whether it is sentimental or rational. There is a scene early in the novel where Yorick meets a monk and refuses "to give him a single sous [a penny]."
In psychology, reactance is an unpleasant motivational reaction to offers, persons, rules, regulations, criticisms, advice, recommendations, information, nudges, and messages that are perceived to threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms. Reactance occurs when an individual feels that an agent is attempting to limit one's choice of ...
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Lenin insisted on the rapid distribution of the book and stressed that "not only literary but also serious political obligations" were involved in its publication. [4] The book was written as a reaction and criticism to the three-volume work Empiriomonism (1904–1906) by Alexander Bogdanov, his political opponent within the Party. In June 1909 ...
A homeless encampment at 86th and Broadway in L.A. Inside Safe workers moved people into available hotel and motel rooms at the end of June, before Gov. Gavin Newsom's order.