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the cultural response to terror, pandemics, environmental devastation, nuclear annihilation, and other threats
By Robert Wuthnow
"Be very afraid" was published by Oxford University Press in 2010 - Oxford, it has 294 pages and the language of the book is English.
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- Title: Be very afraid
- Author: Robert Wuthnow
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 294
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: 2010
- Publish Location: Oxford
“Be very afraid” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Emergency management - Weapons of mass destruction - Nuclear weapons - Threats - Social aspects - Global warming - Epidemics - Psychological aspects - Fear - Terrorism - Pandemie - Soziologie - Kernwaffe - Klimakatastrophe - Massenvernichtungswaffe - Gegenmaßnahme - Extortion - Terrorism, psychological aspects - Threat (psychology) - Morale
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 294 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL24378982M - OL15408705W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 436221092
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2009026879
- ISBN-13: 9780199730872
- ISBN-10: 0199730873
- All ISBNs: 0199730873 - 9780199730872
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"Be very afraid" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Introduction
- 2- Perilous times
- 3- The nuclear-haunted era
- 4- What to mobilize against
- 5- Waging war on terror
- 6- Weapons of mass destruction
- 7- Panics and pandemics
- 8- Environmental catastrophe
- 9- Setting a new agenda
- 10- The call for action
- 11- Notes
- 12- Selected bibliography
- 13- Index.
"Be very afraid" Description:
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Examines the human response to existential threats--once a matter for theology, but now looming before us in multiple forms. Nuclear weapons, pandemics, global warming: each threatens to destroy the planet, or at least to annihilate our species. Freud, Wuthnow notes, famously taught that the standard psychological response to an overwhelming danger is denial. In fact, Wuthnow argues, the opposite is true: we seek ways of positively meeting the threat, of doing something--anything--even if it's wasteful and time-consuming. It would be one thing if our responses were merely pointless, Wuthnow observes, but they can actually be harmful.--From publisher description.
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