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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Bart Nagel (author photograph) Ilustrador. [10], 277, [1] pages. Signed by the author on the half title page. Includes Introduction: In the Name of Freedom; Suggested Reading; and Acknowledgments. Topics covered include Part 1: Uncontested Freedom; Part II: Contested Freedom; Part III: Forms of Freedom; and Part 1V: Ideas and Action. The central thesis of this book is simple. There are two very different views of freedom in America today, arising from two very different moral and political worldviews dividing the country. The traditional idea of freedom is progressive. One can see traditional values most clearly in the direction of change that has been demanded and applauded over two centuries. America has been a nation of activists, consistently expanding its most treasured freedoms. The author approaches the idea of freedom from the perspective of cognitive science--the interdisciplinary study of mind. He believes that one version of freedom is traditional and important to keep for the deepest moral reasons. He believes that the other version of freedom is dangerous to our democratic ideals and to the moral system behind the founding of our nation. His task in this book is to open up a discussion of these two views of freedom, to describe them as accurately as possible, and to discuss how to take back the progressive view of freedom that lies at the heart of our democracy--and to do so honestly, using framings, both deep and surface, that we really believe and that reveal the truth about our social, economic, and political realities. George Philip Lakoff (born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena. The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea, George Lakoff describes how the country is divided by two dramatically different worldviews, cognitive frames that determine how we think about economic policy, religion, science, foreign affairs - and freedom. Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word freedom. The United States can strike preemptively because freedom is on the march. Social security should be privatized in order to protect individual freedoms. In the 2005 presidential inaugural speech, the words freedom, free, and liberty were used forty-nine times. Freedom is one of the most contested words in American political discourse, the keystone to the domestic and foreign policy battles that are racking this polarized nation. For many Democrats, it seems that President Bush's use of the word is meaningless and contradictory, deployed opportunistically to justify American military action abroad and the curtailing of civil liberties at home. But in Whose Freedom?, George Lakoff, an adviser to the Democratic party, shows that in fact the right has effected a devastatingly coherent and ideological redefinition of freedom. The conservative revolution has remade freedom in its own image and deployed it as a central weapon on the front lines of everything from the war on terror to the battles over religion in the classroom and abortion. In a deep and alarming analysis, Lakoff explains the mechanisms behind this hijacking of our most cherished political idea, and shows how progressives have not only failed to counter the right-wing attack on freedom but have failed to recognize its nature. Whose Freedom? argues forcefully what progressives must do to take back ground in this high-stakes war over the most central idea in American life. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Condición: Very good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Lexington Books hardcover w/ no DJ (none issued for this edition), 2003. Book is VG to VG+, w/ clean text, tight binding. Free delivery confirmation.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 324 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.81 inches. This item is printed on demand.