Nervous states : democracy and the decline of reason /

In this age of intense political conflict, we sense objective fact is growing less important. Experts are attacked as partisan, statistics and scientific findings are decried as propaganda, and public debate devolves into personal assaults. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? In this s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Davies, William, 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Emotions > Political aspects. Communication in politics > Psychological aspects. Democracy > Psychological aspects. Political psychology. POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.

Table of Contents:

Part one: The decline of reason. Democracy of feeling ; Knowledge for peace ; Progress in question ; The body politic
Part two: The rise of feeling. Knowledge for war ; Guessing games ; War of words ; Between war and peace.