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The political mind : why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain / George Lakoff.

by Lakoff, George.

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Liberalism -- United States.

Progressivism (United States politics)

Political culture -- United States.

Conservatism -- United States.

Communication in politics -- United States.

Thought and thinking.

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x, 292 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : brain change and social change -- How the brain shapes the political mind -- Anna Nicole on the brain -- The political unconscious -- The brain's role in family values -- The brain's role in political ideologies -- Political challenges for the twenty-first-century mind -- A new consciousness -- Traumatic ideas : the War on Terror -- Framing reality : privateering -- Fear of framing -- Confronting stereotypes : sons of the welfare queen -- Aim above the bad apples -- Cognitive policy -- Contested concepts everywhere -- The technical is the political -- Exploring the political brain -- The problem of self-interest -- The metaphors defining rational action -- Why hawks win -- The brain's language -- Language in the new enlightenment -- Afterword : what if it works? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

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