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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.
The Dark Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (sometimes abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, [1] and reactionary philosophical and political movement. [2] The term "Dark Enlightenment" is a reaction to the Age of Enlightenment and an apologia for the popular conception of the Dark Ages .
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.
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin is a 2011 book written by political theorist Corey Robin. It argues that conservatism from the 17th century to today is based on the principle "that some are fit, and thus ought, to rule others".
Reactionary modernism has been explored as a theme in the interwar literature and broader political culture of Great Britain. [7] It has been examined in the context of other European countries during the interwar period, including Romania, [8] Greece, [9] [10] Sweden, [11] and Spain. [12] It has even been examined in the context of fascism in ...
According to literary theorist Cornelius Quassus, in the novel Anna Karenina, "unofficial institutions of the system, presented through social salons, function as part of the power apparatus that successfully calms the disorder created by Anna's irrational emotional action, which is a symbol of resistance to the system of social behavioral ...
Reactionary feminism views men and women as equal in dignity and capacity for excellence but physiologically different in ways that, at scale, are materially and politically significant. Reactionary feminism argues from a materialist analysis of feminist history that the claim that males and females are interchangeable is itself false, serves ...