Abstract:It is symptomatic that Companhia das Letras republished Albert Hirschman's classic, The Rhetoric of Reaction, in 2019. In an attempt to understand the wave of reactionary nationalism that has spread across the planet in the last decade, it is remarkable how much a work originally published in the 1990s remains suitable for explaining, albeit partially, contemporary phenomena. Among many successes and some misfires, Hirschman proposes, limited by the scope of less than 200 pages, to analyse over 200 years of re… Show more
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