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001 2008010990
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005 20080624083845.0
008 080310s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aJC574.2.U6$bL35 2008
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100 1 $aLakoff, George.
245 14 $aThe political mind :$bwhy you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain /$cGeorge Lakoff.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2008.
300 $ax, 292 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn 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.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 $aLiberalism$zUnited States.
650 0 $aProgressivism (United States politics)
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aConservatism$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCommunication in politics$zUnited States.
650 0 $aThought and thinking.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2008010990-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2008010990-d.html