Fear The History of a Political Idea

Name: Fear The History of a Political Idea
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ISBN: 9780195189124

ISBN-10: 0195189124

ISBN-13: 9780195189124

Edition: 2006

Authors: Corey Robin

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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…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Corey Robin is Associate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and the author of the award-winning Fear: The History of a Political Idea .



Acknowledgments


Fear


Introduction



History of an Idea



Fear



Terror



Anxiety



Total Terror



Remains of the Day



Fear, American Style



Sentimental Educations



Divisions of Labor



Upstairs, Downstairs


Conclusion: Liberalism Agonistes


Notes


Index