Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 653 g
The History of a Political Idea
Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 653 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-515702-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Documents the growing fascination with political danger and disaster, reexamines fear's modern interpreters including Hobbes and Tocqueville, and offers an antidote to the culture of fear.
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




