The political mind, why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain, George Lakoff
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The political mind, why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain, George Lakoff
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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The political mind
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bibliography
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213466226
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George Lakoff
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why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain
Summary
In What's the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank pointed out that a great number of Americans actually vote against their own interests. In The Political Mind, George Lakoff explains why
Table Of Contents
Introduction : brain change and social change -- How the brain shapes the political mind -- Anna Nicole on the brain -- The political unconscious -- The brain's role in family values -- The brain's role in political ideologies -- Political challenges for the twenty-first-century mind -- A new consciousness -- Traumatic ideas : the War on Terror -- Framing reality : privateering -- Fear of framing -- Confronting stereotypes : sons of the welfare queen -- Aim above the bad apples -- Cognitive policy -- Contested concepts everywhere -- The technical is the political -- Exploring the political brain -- The problem of self-interest -- The metaphors defining rational action -- Why hawks win -- The brain's language -- Language in the new enlightenment -- Afterword : what if it works? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
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