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Ideological Fixation
From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars
Buch von Azar Gat
Sprache: Englisch

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Ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with great intensity throughout the world. In the United States they have become particularly venomous. Each side in America's escalating ideological civil war charges the other with concocting 'fake news' and 'alternative facts'. The other side is widely viewed as malicious, irrational or downright stupid, and, often, as barely legitimate. People are deaf to claims about reality that come from the opposite camp, no matter how valid they might be. In exploring this phenomenon, the book combines insights from evolutionary psychology regarding the nature of some of our deepest proclivities with a broad sweep through history. It proceeds from the Stone Age to the rise of civilization, the great religions and modernity, to a critique of fundamental factual premises that underlie some of the major debates dominating today's liberal democracies, not least the United States.
Ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with great intensity throughout the world. In the United States they have become particularly venomous. Each side in America's escalating ideological civil war charges the other with concocting 'fake news' and 'alternative facts'. The other side is widely viewed as malicious, irrational or downright stupid, and, often, as barely legitimate. People are deaf to claims about reality that come from the opposite camp, no matter how valid they might be. In exploring this phenomenon, the book combines insights from evolutionary psychology regarding the nature of some of our deepest proclivities with a broad sweep through history. It proceeds from the Stone Age to the rise of civilization, the great religions and modernity, to a critique of fundamental factual premises that underlie some of the major debates dominating today's liberal democracies, not least the United States.
Über den Autor
Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of nine books, including, more recently: A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War (Oxford, 2001); War in Human Civilization (Oxford, 2006), named one of the best books of the year by the Times Literary Supplement (TLS); Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is still Imperiled (2010); Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism (2013); The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? (Oxford, 2017); and War and Strategy in the Modern World: From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terrorism, (collected articles and essays, 2018). His books have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Turkish, and Hebrew. He has held visiting positions at Oxford, Yale, Ohio State,

Georgetown, Hoover-Stanford, Freiburg, Munich, and Constance. In 2019 he was awarded the EMET Prize in the fields of Political Science and Strategy. Granted under the auspices of the Prime Minister's office, it is considered Israel's highest scholarly prize.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • A. Groundwork

  • Chapter 1: What Is True? (Though Never the Whole Truth)

  • Chapter 2: What Is Right? How Morality Should be Conceived

  • B. The Classical Ideologies

  • Chapter 3: Religious Ideological Fixation - Examined by a Non-Hostile Atheist

  • Chapter 4: The Major Contenders of Modernity: Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism

  • C. Current Debates and Fixations in the Democracies

  • Chapter 5: The West's Guilt towards the 'Rest'

  • Chapter 6: Nature or Nurture? - Nations and Nationhood

  • Chapter 7: Nature or Nurture? - Gender and Sexual Behavior

  • Chapter 8: Can anything be Done? Some Very Tentative Reflections on Current Ideological Battlefields

  • Chapter 9: Conclusion: Ideological Fixation - Now and Ever

  • References

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197646700
ISBN-10: 0197646700
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gat, Azar
Hersteller: Hurst & Co.
Maße: 238 x 164 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Azar Gat
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.10.2022
Gewicht: 0,635 kg
Artikel-ID: 125696194
Über den Autor
Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of nine books, including, more recently: A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War (Oxford, 2001); War in Human Civilization (Oxford, 2006), named one of the best books of the year by the Times Literary Supplement (TLS); Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is still Imperiled (2010); Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism (2013); The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? (Oxford, 2017); and War and Strategy in the Modern World: From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terrorism, (collected articles and essays, 2018). His books have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Turkish, and Hebrew. He has held visiting positions at Oxford, Yale, Ohio State,

Georgetown, Hoover-Stanford, Freiburg, Munich, and Constance. In 2019 he was awarded the EMET Prize in the fields of Political Science and Strategy. Granted under the auspices of the Prime Minister's office, it is considered Israel's highest scholarly prize.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • A. Groundwork

  • Chapter 1: What Is True? (Though Never the Whole Truth)

  • Chapter 2: What Is Right? How Morality Should be Conceived

  • B. The Classical Ideologies

  • Chapter 3: Religious Ideological Fixation - Examined by a Non-Hostile Atheist

  • Chapter 4: The Major Contenders of Modernity: Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism

  • C. Current Debates and Fixations in the Democracies

  • Chapter 5: The West's Guilt towards the 'Rest'

  • Chapter 6: Nature or Nurture? - Nations and Nationhood

  • Chapter 7: Nature or Nurture? - Gender and Sexual Behavior

  • Chapter 8: Can anything be Done? Some Very Tentative Reflections on Current Ideological Battlefields

  • Chapter 9: Conclusion: Ideological Fixation - Now and Ever

  • References

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197646700
ISBN-10: 0197646700
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gat, Azar
Hersteller: Hurst & Co.
Maße: 238 x 164 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Azar Gat
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.10.2022
Gewicht: 0,635 kg
Artikel-ID: 125696194
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