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680426
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b502615
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| Main Entry
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Lakoff, George.
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| Title & Author
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The political mind : : a cognitive scientist's guide to your brain and its politics /\ George Lakoff.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Penguin Books,, 2009.
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292 p. ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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0143115685 (pbk.)
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: 9780143115687 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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"With a new preface"--Cover.
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Originally published in hardcover under title: Political mind : why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain, by Viking in 2008.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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Communication in politics-- United States.
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Conservatism-- United States.
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Liberalism-- United States.
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Political culture-- United States.
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Progressivism (United States politics)
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Thought and thinking.
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| LC Classification
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JC574.2.U6L35 2009
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