General Information

Author/Creator

Lakoff, George.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Viking, 2008.

Physical Description

x, 292 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

In 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.

Subjects

Subject

Liberalism > United States.

Progressivism (United States politics)

Political culture > United States.

Conservatism > United States.

Communication in politics > United States.

Thought and thinking.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

George Lakoff.

Content

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? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN

9780670019274

9780143115687

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	320.01 LAK		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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