Be very afraid : the cultural response to terror, pandemics, environmental devastation, nuclear annihilation, and other threats /

Here, Wuthnow examines the human response to existential threats. Freud, he notes, famously taught that the standard psychological response to an overwhelming danger is denial. In fact, Wuthnow writes, the opposite is true: we seek ways of positively meeting the threat, of doing something even if it...

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Main Author:	Wuthnow, Robert
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Emergency management. Threats. Menaces. SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. Emergency management Threats Gegenmaßnahme Kernwaffe Klimakatastrophe Massenvernichtungswaffe Pandemie Soziologie USA Electronic books.
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