Fear : the history of a political idea / Corey Robin.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004وصف:x, 316 pages ; 25cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195157028 (hbk)
- JA74.5 R48 2004
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | JA74.5 R48 2004 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000161325 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | JA74.5 R48 2004 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000161326 |
Fear -- Terror -- Anxiety -- Total terror -- Remains of the day -- Sentimental educations -- Divisions of labor -- Upstairs, downstairs.
For many, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as 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. As our faith in progress 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 stunning 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 those who sponsor and benefit from it. For fear, Robin insists, is an exemplary instrument of repression--nowhere more evident than in contemporary America.