The 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
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780670019274
Subjects: Government - National; Political Science / Government / National; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations
Description: 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.
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 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 : 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.