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A Philosophy of Fear pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Surveillance cameras. Airport security lines. Barred shop windows. We see manifestations of societal fears every day, and daily news reports on the latest household danger or raised terror threat level continually stoke our sense of impending doom. In "A Philosophy of Fear", Lars Svendsen explores the underlying ideas and issues behind this powerful emotion, as he investigates how and why fear has insinuated itself into every aspect of modern life. Svendsen delves into science, politics, sociology and literature to explore the nature of fear. He discusses the biology behind the emotion, from the neuroscience underlying our fight or flight' instinct to how fear induces us to take irrational actions in our attempts to minimize risk. The book then turns to the political and social realms, investigating the role of fear in the philosophies of Machiavelli and Hobbes, the rise of the modern risk society, and how fear has eroded social trust. The political use of fear in the ongoing War on Terror also comes under Svendsen's probing gaze, as he investigates whether we can ever disentangle ourselves from the continual state of alarm that defines our age. Svendsen ultimately argues for the possibility of a brighter, less fearful future that is marked by a triumph of humanist optimism. An incisive and thought-provoking meditation, "A Philosophy of Fear" pulls back the curtain that shrouds dangers both imagined and real, forcing us to confront our fears and why we hold to them.
拉斯•史文德森(Lars Svendsen),挪威卑尔根大学(University of Bergen)哲学系副教授。他的作品包括:《邪恶的哲学》(The Philosophy of Evil)以及虽有争议仍受热捧的《恐惧的哲学》(A Philosophy of Fear)、《时尚的哲学》(Fashion: A Philosophy)和《无聊的哲学》(A Philosophy of Boredom)。
作者拉斯的這次努力,揭開人類生活中不可或缺,又令我們紛擾不斷、困惑不已、著迷無算的人性一角;是在人性肋下、股溝之褶皺隱秘處霍霍然的一刀——呼喇一下,豁然開朗,昭然清晰。而在此書之前,慚愧得緊,某甚至不曉得這算是一個話題?! 《恐懼的哲學》全書共七章,內容安...
评分作者拉斯的這次努力,揭開人類生活中不可或缺,又令我們紛擾不斷、困惑不已、著迷無算的人性一角;是在人性肋下、股溝之褶皺隱秘處霍霍然的一刀——呼喇一下,豁然開朗,昭然清晰。而在此書之前,慚愧得緊,某甚至不曉得這算是一個話題?! 《恐懼的哲學》全書共七章,內容安...
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A Philosophy of Fear pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024