political mind
Subtitle: why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain
By: George Lakoff.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780670019274
Subjects: Liberalism -- United States; Progressivism (United States politics); Political culture -- United States; Conservatism -- United States; Communication in politics -- United States; Thought and thinking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: brain change and social change; title: How the brain shapes the political mind; title: Anna Nicole on the brain; title: The political unconscious; title: The brain's role in family values; title: The brain?s role in political ideologies; title: Political challenges; title: For the twenty-first-century mind; title: A new consciousness; title: Traumatic ideas: the War on Terror; title: Framing reality: privateering; title: Fear of framing; title: Confronting stereotypes:; title: Sons of the welfare queen; title: Aim above the bad apples; title: Cognitive policy; title: Contested concepts everywhere; title: The technical is the political; title: Exploring the political brain; title: The problem of self- interest; title: The metaphors defining rational action; title: Why hawks win; title: The brain's language; title: Language in the new enlightenment; title: Afterword: what if it works?; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Index.