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
Keywords:
Politik
;
Angst
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=281161
Author information:
Robin, Corey 1967-
