Be Very Afraid - The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental

Zusatztext an extraordinarily ambitious book... Wuthnow illuminates the psychology and cognitive frameworks we construct to make sense of the peril we face. Informationen zum Autor Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous articles and books about American culture, including American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short and Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Christianity. Klappentext Examines the human response to existential threats--once a matter for theology, but now looming before us in multiple forms. Nuclear weapons, pandemics, global warming: each threatens to destroy the planet, or at least to annihilate our species. Freud, Wuthnow notes, famously taught that the standard psychological response to an overwhelming danger is denial. In fact, Wuthnow argues, the opposite is true: we seek ways of positively meeting the threat, of doing something--anything--even if it's wasteful and time-consuming. It would be one thing if our responses were merely pointless, Wuthnow observes, but they can actually be harmful.--From publisher description. Zusammenfassung Disputes the view that fear of peril results in denial and argues that a more common response is to do things to overcome our sense of vulnerability even if these things are ineffective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1.: Perilous Times 2.: The Nuclear-Haunted Era 3.: What to Mobilize Against 4.: Waging War on Terror 5.: Weapons of Mass Destruction 6.: Panics and Pandemics 7.: Environmental Catastrophe 8.: Setting a New Agenda 9.: The Call for Action Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Robert Wuthnow, Robert (Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Sociology Wuthnow
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2010
• EAN: 9780199730872
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973087-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Cultural Studies, Climate Change, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion & politics, Terrorism, armed struggle, Philosophy of religion, Religion and Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State