For them, the Enlightenment was an episode and modern times a mistake: what characterizes reactionary thinking, what distinguishes reactionary thinkers?
Against what do they turn, how do they depend on what they condemn?
What is the importance of which of these authors in different countries, different groups?
What are their weaknesses and what is their fascination?
Jurgen Kaube
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In the spring, the writer and essayist Karl-Heinz Ott published a “History of Reactionary Thinking” with Hanser Verlag under the title “Cursed Modern Times”.
On June 30, he was a guest at the LiteraTurm Festival in Frankfurt with the book and presented it in a conversation with Jürgen Kaube.
"Cursed Modern Times - A History of Reactionary Thinking" by Karl-Heinz Ott was published by Hanser Verlag, has 432 pages and costs 26 euros.
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