عنوان

The political mind :

(Number (ISBN

0143115685 (pbk.)

(Number (ISBN

9780143115687 (pbk.)

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b504090

Title Proper

The political mind :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a cognitive scientist's guide to your brain and its politics /

First Statement of Responsibility

George Lakoff.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Penguin Books,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

292 p. ;

Dimensions

22 cm.

Text of Note

"With a new preface"--Cover.

Text of Note

Originally published in hardcover under title: Political mind : why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain, by Viking in 2008.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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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Communication in politics-- United States.

Conservatism-- United States.

Liberalism-- United States.

Political culture-- United States.

Progressivism (United States politics)

Thought and thinking.

Class number

Book number

Lakoff, George.

Date of Transaction

20101215082218.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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