ISBN: 9780195348101

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--… Mehr…

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, abandoning the quest for justice, equality, and freedom. But as fear becomes our intimate, we understand it less. In a startling 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 the public and private authorities who sponsor and benefit from it. For fear, Robin insists, is an exemplary instrument of repression--in the public and private sector. Nowhere is this politically repressive fear--and its evasion--more evident than in contemporary America. In his final chapters, Robin accuses our leading scholars and critics of ignoring "Fear, American Style," which, as he shows, is the fruit of our most prized inheritances--the Constitution and the free market. With danger playing an increasing role in our daily lives and justifying a growing number of government policies, Robin's Fear offers a bracing, and necessary, antidote to our contemporary culture of fear.; PDF; Politics, Philosphy & Religion > Philosophy > Social & political philosophy, Oxford University Press<

ISBN: 9780195348101

Robin illustrates the central role that fear has played and continues to play in the wielding of power, particularly in politics and the workplace.; PDF; Politics, Philosphy & Religion > … Mehr…

Robin illustrates the central role that fear has played and continues to play in the wielding of power, particularly in politics and the workplace.; PDF; Politics, Philosphy & Religion > Philosophy > Social & political philosophy, Oxford University Press<

ISBN: 0195348109

Fear ab 18.99 € als pdf eBook: The History of a Political Idea. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen, Medien > Bücher, Fear - eBook als pdf von Corey Robin - Oxford Universi… Mehr…

Fear ab 18.99 € als pdf eBook: The History of a Political Idea. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen, Medien > Bücher, Fear - eBook als pdf von Corey Robin - Oxford University Press - 9780195348101<

ISBN: 9780195348101

Fear - The History of a Political Idea: ab 18.99 € eBooks > Belletristik > Erzählungen Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press

2004, ISBN: 9780195348101

The History of a Political Idea, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 2004