{"product_id":"poisoning-the-minds-of-the-lower-orders-9780691057415","title":"Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders","description":"\u003cp\u003eConservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to the French Revolution. \u003ci\u003ePoisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders\u003c\/i\u003e ushers the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deftly weaving social and intellectual history, Herzog brings to life the social practices of the Enlightenment. In circulating libraries and Sunday schools, deferential subjects developed an avid taste for reading; in coffeehouses, alehouses, and debating societies, they boldly dared to argue about politics. Such conservatives as Edmund Burke gaped with horror, fearing that what radicals applauded as the rise of rationality was really popular stupidity or worse. Subjects, insisted conservatives, ought to defer to tradition--and be comforted by illusions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Urging that abstract political theories are manifest in everyday life, Herzog unflinchingly explores the unsavory emotions that maintained and threatened social hierarchy. Conservatives dished out an unrelenting diet of contempt. But Herzog refuses to pretend that the day's radicals were saints. Radicals, he shows, invested in contempt as enthusiastically as did conservatives. Hairdressers became newly contemptible, even a cultural obsession. Women, workers, Jews, and blacks were all abused by their presumed superiors. Yet some of the lowly subjects Burke had the temerity to brand a swinish multitude fought back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How were England's humble subjects transformed into proud citizens? And just how successful was the transformation? At once history and political theory, absorbing and disquieting, \u003ci\u003ePoisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders\u003c\/i\u003e challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don Herzog\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.07w x 1.37d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691057415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon Herzog\u003c\/b\u003e teaches law and political theory at the University of Michigan. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWithout Foundations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHappy Slaves\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40087124607091,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":56.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_562f21b5-dd56-45fc-98a0-426300d842bb.jpg?v=1652538261","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/poisoning-the-minds-of-the-lower-orders-9780691057415","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}