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  • 1
    Book
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV019673009
    Format: x, 316 Seiten
    ISBN: 0195157028 , 9780195189124 , 9780195157024
    Content: For many, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination--the first intellectual history of its kind--fear has shaped our politics and culture since time immemorial. As our faith in progress recedes, he argues, we turn to fear as the justifying language of public life. We may not know the good, but we do know the bad--so we cling to fear, abandoning the quest for justice, equality, and freedom. But as fear becomes our intimate, we understand it less. In a stunning reexamination of fear's greatest modern interpreters--Hobbes, Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Arendt--Robin finds that writers since the eighteenth century have systematically obscured fear's political dimensions, diverting attention from those who sponsor and benefit from it. For fear, Robin insists, is an exemplary instrument of repression--nowhere more evident than in contemporary America.
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science , Philosophy
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    Keywords: Angst ; Politische Theorie
    Author information: Robin, Corey 1967-
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    UID:
    gbv_1653273909
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 316 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780195348101
    Series Statement: Ebrary online
    Content: For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination, fear has shaped our politics and culture since time immemorial. From the Garden of Eden to today's headlines, Robin traces our growing fascination with political danger and disaster. As our faith in positive political principles recedes, he argues, we turn to fear as the justifying language of public life. We may not know the good, but we do know the bad. So we cling to fear, abandoning the quest for justice, equality, and freedom.
    Content: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 HISTORY OF AN IDEA -- 1 Fear -- 2 Terror -- 3 Anxiety -- 4 Total Terror -- 5 Remains of the Day -- PART 2 FEAR, AMERICAN STYLE -- 6 Sentimental Educations -- 7 Divisions of Labor -- 8 Upstairs, Downstairs -- Conclusion: Liberalism Agonistes -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780195157024
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0195157028
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Robin, Corey, 1967 - Fear Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN 9780195157024
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0195157028
    Additional Edition: Print version Fear : The History of a Political Idea
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science , Philosophy
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    Keywords: Politik ; Angst
    Author information: Robin, Corey 1967-
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