The Political Mind : Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain /
George Lakoff.
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2009.
- 292 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Don't Think of an Elephant! " explains the science behind how we make political decisions.
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