The political mind : why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain /
In What's the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank pointed out that many people actually vote against their own interests. Here, linguist Lakoff explains why. Human beings are not rational creatures. Ideas, morals, and values do not exist somewhere outside--they exist literally inside the brain, a...
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New York :
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2008.
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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.