Ideological fixation : from the Stone Age to today's culture wars / Azar Gat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gat, Azar, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ideology--History.

Ideology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

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.

Contents:

What is true? (Though never the whole truth)

What is right? How morality should be conceived

Religious ideological fixation : examined by a non-hostile atheist

The major contenders of modernity : liberalism, socialism, fascism

The West's guilt towards the 'rest'

Nature or nurture? : nations and nationhood

Nature or nurture? : gender and sexual behavior

Can anything be done? Some very tentative reflections on current ideological battlefields

Conclusion: Ideological fixation : now and ever.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 10, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-764672-7

0-19-764673-5

0-19-764671-9