The Rise of Decline: Narrative Historiography, Historical Perceptions of Time, and Reactionary Narratives

• In Event: Political and Collective Imaginaries

Brief Overview

This paper argues that political reaction, conceptualized as a shared narrative form of community decline, may be historicized to modernity due to its structural reliance upon unilinear homogenous empty time and narrative historiography.

Author

• Graham P Gallagher, University of Florida