Dalla Cattedrale all’Anticristo. L’immaginario del ressentiment del pensiero neoreazionario
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https://doi.org/10.13129/2281-8138/2026.1.212-255Palabras clave:
Ressentiment, Neo-Reactionary , Social Imaginary, Cultural Wars , Mimetic TheoryResumen
Recent studies have defined neo-reactionary thought as a constellation of diverse ideologies and narratives that are sometimes in conflict with one another but united by common enemies. This essay interprets certain themes
in neo-reactionary thought as a specific social imaginary fueled by mimetic ressentiment within the context of a religion-intensified culture war. From a methodological level, this paper presents a theoretically grounded interpretive qualitative analysis of a corpus of texts by Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, and Peter Thiel, selected on the basis of the research question. The most important
concepts of the selected texts are analyzed according to three categories: “Orthodoxy,” “Heresy,” and “Reaction.” The aim is to outline a mapping, albeit partial, based on the interpretation developed.
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