Ideological fixation : from the Stone Age to today's culture wars / Azar Gat.
By: Gat, Azar [author.]
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197646731Subject(s): Ideology -- History | Philosophy | PhilosophyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197646700DDC classification: 145 LOC classification: B823.3 | .G38 2022Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the 'death of ideology', ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with renewed intensity throughout the world. In the United States they have become particularly venomous. Combining insights from evolutionary psychology with a broad sweep through history, down to the ideological civil war ripping the United States apart, the book explores the deeper roots of people's inability to accept claims about reality which come from the opposite ideological camp, no matter how valid they might be.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the 'death of ideology', ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with renewed intensity throughout the world. In the United States they have become particularly venomous. Combining insights from evolutionary psychology with a broad sweep through history, down to the ideological civil war ripping the United States apart, the book explores the deeper roots of people's inability to accept claims about reality which come from the opposite ideological camp, no matter how valid they might be.
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