Philosophy of Fear
Philosophy of Fear Surveillance cameras. Barred store windows. Airport security lines. In A Philosophy of Fear, Lars Svendsen now explores the underlying ideas and issues behind this powerful…
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Philosophy of Fear
Surveillance cameras. Barred store windows. Airport security lines.
In A Philosophy of Fear, Lars Svendsen now 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. We see manifestations of societal fears everyday, and daily news reports on the latest household danger or raised terror threat level continually stoke our sense of impending doom. He examines 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
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