Fear: A Cultural History - Softcover

Bourke, Joanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593761546 ISBN 13: 9781593761547

Verlag: Catapult, 2007

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Book by Bourke Joanna

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Críticas:

"Bourke performs a sterling service, painstakingly picking over usually bypassed sources and materials for hidden clues as to what scares us." "YThis book considers things that go bump in the night and why they scare us from a social sciences perspective. . . . YA well-written discussion of fear and trembling." "YBourke raises a wry, cool eyebrow at the hyperbole of hysteria. She assesses risk rather than quavers before it. She puts fear in its proper place--as part of our pattern of life. . . . This is a journey full of wit and scholarship, an enthralling read that makes you inspect your own psyche. . . . Turn inwards and you may never be quite so afraid again."

Reseña del editor:

Whether we like it or not, an atmosphere of fear pervades modern culture. In America, each day is color-coded for the level of threat; newspapers fill with gloomy news of climate crisis; and the radio and TV bleat with Amber alerts, car crashes, and the war wounded.In this groundbreaking work, award-winning historian Joanna Bourke helps us understand the landscape of fear we now navigate. Her review of the past two hundred years  from diagnosed phobias to the media's role in creating new ones  prompts strikingly original observations about the mind and worldview of the  long twentieth century." Blending sociocultural analysis with psychology, philosophy, and popular science, this beautifully written and exhaustively researched book offers an authoritative look at one of humankind's most basic emotions.

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• Verlag: Catapult
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1593761546
• ISBN 13: 9781593761547
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 520