Book

The political mind : why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain

Call Number

  • 320.5 L192.2 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Viking, c2008.

Physical Description

x, 292 p. ; 24 cm.

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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