The Monarchy of Fear
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"Because Winnicott recognized (as many psychoanalysts do not) that the personal and the political are inseparable, he kept returning to political questions." "Most terrorist incidents are committed by Muslims [is] a claim that can't easily be studied well, since the definition of terrorism is so vague and disputed." "In fact, disgust is first observed at the time of toilet training. " "Although our deep respect for religious choices has kept the United States from following some European countries that have actually banned the burqa, there's no doubt that it does inspire many people with unease and vague alarm." "(Indeed, the French law banning facial covering had to include a long list of exceptions, including reasons of “health,” “sport,” “profession,” and “artistic and cultural events.”)" "This case[ trans people going to the bathroom of their choice], then, resembles the anti-gay animus already discussed: it involves a fear of change, a desire to enforce traditional boundaries, and a bodily shrinking from vulnerable people that is either an instance of projective disgust or is closely akin to it." "Clearly the war against disgust must be fought first of all in the family, in the school, and in the upbringing of children more generally." p. 132 "Just as we are apparently hardwired to fear the shape of the snake, so we seem to be hardwired to fear a person who is hidden, whose face cannot be seen." [on the hijab ] |
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The Monarchy of Fear (2018) is a book on fear and current politics by Martha Nussbaum occasioned by the 2016 United States presidential election.
Blurb
From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country.
For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized American since the 2016 election.
Although today’s atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame is exemplified by the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit, Nussbaum argues it can be found on all sides of the political spectrum, left or right.
Drawing on a mix of historical and contemporary examples, from classical Athens to the musical Hamilton, The Monarchy of Fear untangles this web of feelings and provides a roadmap of where to go next.
See also
- The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life by Joseph E. LeDoux
- Emotion
- Amygdala hijack
- Daniel Stern (psychologist)'s baby research as in The Interpersonal World of the Infant (1985)
- Heuristic
- Donald Winnicott, the political and the personal
- Paul Rozin
- Death anxiety (psychology)
- The furies
- Lucretius
- Emile, or On Education
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Strangers in Their Own Land
- Paul Bloom
- Donald Trump's speech in Warsaw, Poland
- Just-world hypothesis
- Gandhism
- See Debbie Felton, “Witches, Disgust, and Anti-abortion Propaganda in Imperial Rome,” in Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas, The Ancient Emotion of Disgust (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 189–201
- Correlation disgust and danger
- Ungeziefer ongedierte?
- Okra
- "animal reminders"
- Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death
- Anthropodenial
- "The Lady's Dressing Room " (1732) by Jonathan Swift, from Swift to Joyce, no Zola?
- Caenum
- Heuristics in judgment and decision-making
- The Giving Tree