Description: Further DetailsTitle: Facing FearCondition: NewEAN: 9780691153605ISBN: 9780691153605Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/14/2012Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 425gContributor: Michael Laffan (Edited by), Max Weiss (Edited by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: The History of an Emotion in Global PerspectiveISBN-10: 0691153604Description: Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of institutionalized insecurity and global terror, Facing Fear sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts, and demonstrates how fear universally binds us to particular presents but also to a broad spectrum of memories, stories, and states in the past. From the eighteenth-century Peruvian highlands and the California borderlands to the urban cityscapes of contemporary Russia and India, this book collectively explores the wide range of causes, experiences, and explanations of this protean emotion. The volume contributes to the thriving literature on the history of emotions and destabilizes narratives that have often understood fear in very specific linguistic, cultural, and geographical settings.Rather, by using a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, the book situates fear in more global terms, breaks new ground in the historical and cultural analysis of emotions, and sets out a new agenda for further research. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Alexander Etkind, Lisbeth Haas, Andreas Killen, David Lederer, Melani McAlister, Ronald Schechter, Marla Stone, Ravi Sundaram, and Charles Walker.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton UniversityTopic: Social SciencesAuthor: Max WeissRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Facing Fear
Title: Facing Fear
EAN: 9780691153605
ISBN: 9780691153605
Release Date: 10/14/2012
Release Year: 2012
Contributor: Max Weiss (Edited by)
Subtitle: The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective
ISBN-10: 0691153604
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Facing Fear : the History of an Emotion in Global Perspective
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Anxieties & Phobias, World / General, General, Modern / General, Emotions
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Max Weiss
Subject Area: Political Science, Self-Help, Psychology, History
Series: Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University Ser.
Item Width: 6.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
