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The political mind : a cognitive scientist's guide to your brain and its politics

In What's the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank pointed out that a great number of Americans actually vote against their own interests. In The Political Mind, George Lakoff explains why
Print Book, English, 2009
Penguin Books, New York, 2009
xxi, 292 pages ; 22 cm
9780143115687, 9780670019274, 0143115685, 0670019275
276819852
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
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
"With a new preface"--Cover