Fear : the history of a political idea / Corey Robin.
Fear : the history of a political idea / Corey Robin.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N320.019/ 22
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English
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x, 316 p. ; 25 cm.
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Pt. 1. History of an idea -- 1. Fear -- 2. Terror -- 3. Anxiety -- 4. Total terror -- 5. Remains of the day -- Pt. 2. Fear, American style -- 6. Sentimental educations -- 7. Divisions of labor -- 8. Upstairs, downstairs -- Conclusion : liberalism agonistes.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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New York (State)
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2004.
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"For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey 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.".
"From the Garden of Eden to the Gulag Archipelago 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, abandonin...
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Fear : the history of a political idea / Corey Robin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-302) and index.
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0195157028 (hbk.) :
9780195157024 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195157028 (cloth : alk. paper)
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320.019
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991019578609702626
