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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-10022641129X
ISBN-139780226411293
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038271534
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Number of Pages512 Pages
Publication NameMoral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCognitive Science, Language, Sociology / General, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Theory, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
AuthorGeorge Lakoff
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Political Science, Social Science, Science
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Edition Number3
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2016-005827
ReviewsLakoff, the cognitive linguist, understands 'how' you understand . In Moral Politics, [he] deftly applies that seemingly arcane understanding to the heart of American politics. . . . Even those who disagree with him will profit deeply from encountering his challenging ideas., [ Moral Politics ] isn't just an 'issue-by-issue debate.' . . . [It is an] unusual mix of judicious scholarship, tendentious journalism, and inflammatory wake-up call.
Table Of ContentPreface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1 The Mind and Politics 2 The Worldview Problem for American Politics Part II: Moral Conceptual Systems 3 Experiential Morality 4 Keeping the Moral Books 5 Strict Father Morality 6 Nurturant Parent Morality Part III: From Family-Based Morality to Politics 7 Why We Need a New Understanding of American Politics 8 The Nature of the Model 9 Moral Categories in Politics Part IV: The Hard Issues 10 Social Programs and Taxes 11 Crime and the Death Penalty 12 Regulation and the Environment 13 The Culture Wars: From Affirmative Action to the Arts 14 Two Models of Christianity 15 Abortion 16 How Can You Love Your Country and Hate Your Government? Part V: Summing Up 17 Varieties of Liberals and Conservatives 18 Pathologies, Stereotypes, and Distortions 19 Can There Be a Politics without Family Values? Part VI: Who's Right? And How Can You Tell? 20 Nonideological Reasons for Being a Liberal 21 Raising Real Children 22 The Human Mind 23 Basic Humanity Epilogue: Problems for Public Discourse Afterword, 2002 Afterword, 2016 References Index
SynopsisIn this classic political psychology text, the first full-scale application of cognitive science to politics, George Lakoff analyzes the unconscious and rhetorical worldviews of liberals and conservatives, discovering radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. For this third edition, Lakoff adds a preface and an afterword elaborating upon his approach and extending it to recent ideologically based conflicts, such as the Affordable Care Act and global warming. For the third edition, we will be deleting the preface to the second edition and replacing it with "Preface to the Third Edition." We are, though, retaining the afterword to the previous edition with a new title: "Afterword, 2002." The new afterword will be called "Afterword, 2016.", When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality. Even more so than when Lakoff wrote, liberals and conservatives simply have very different, deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong. Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. Moral worldviews, like most deep ways of understanding the world, are unconscious--part of our "hard-wired" brain circuitry. When confronted with facts that don't fit our moral worldview, our brains work automatically and unconsciously to ignore or reject these facts, and it takes extraordinary openness and awareness of this phenomenon to pay critical attention to the vast number of facts we are presented with each day. For this new edition, Lakoff has added a new preface and afterword, extending his observations to major ideological conflicts since the book's original publication, from the Affordable Care Act to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the recent financial crisis, and the effects of global warming. One might have hoped such massive changes would bring people together, but the reverse has actually happened; the divide between liberals and conservatives has become stronger and more virulent. To have any hope of bringing mutual respect to the current social and political divide, we need to clearly understand the problem and make it part of our contemporary public discourse. Moral Politics offers a much-needed wake-up call to both the left and the right.
LC Classification NumberHN90.M6L34 2016
