| Description |
x, 292 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-282) and index. |
| Summary |
Human beings are not the rational creatures we?ve so long imagined ourselves to be. Ideas, morals, and values do not exist somewhere outside the body, ready to be examined and put to use. Instead, they exist quite literally inside the brain--and they take physical shape there. Changing your mind isn?t like changing your body--it?s the same thing. But as long as progressive politicians and activists persist in believing that people use an objective system of reasoning to decide on their politics, the Democrats will continue to lose elections. They must wrest control of the terms of the debate from their opponents rather than accepting their frame and trying to argue within it. |
| 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? |
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Liberalism -- United States.
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Progressivism (United States politics)
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Political culture -- United States.
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Conservatism -- United States.
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Communication in politics -- United States.
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Thought and thinking.
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| ISBN |
9780670019274 |
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0670019275 |
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