Fear : the history of a political idea / Corey Robin.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: x, 316 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195157028
- 9780195157024
- History of a political idea
- 320.019 22
- JA74.5 .R48 2004
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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.
"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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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