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ABOUT THIS BOOK

In this classic text, the first full-scale application of cognitive science to politics, George Lakoff analyzes the unconscious and rhetorical worldviews of liberals and conservatives, discovering radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. For this new edition, Lakoff adds a preface and an afterword extending his observations to major ideological conflicts since the book's original publication, from the impeachment of Bill Clinton to the 2000 presidential election and its aftermath.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

George Lakoff is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things and co-author of Metaphors We Live By and More than Cool Reason, all published by the University of Chicago Press-as well as co-author of Philosophy in the Flesh and Where Mathematics Comes From.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Part I: Introduction

1. The Mind and Politics

2. The Worldview Problem for American Politics

Part II: Moral Conceptual Systems

3. Experiential Morality

4. Keeping the Moral Books

5. Strict Father Morality

6. Nurturant Parent Morality

Part III: From Family-Based Morality to Politics

7. Why We Need a New Understanding of American Politics

8. The Nature of the Model

9. Moral Categories in Politics

Part IV: The Hard Issues

10. Social Programs and Taxes

11. Crime and the Death Penalty

12. Regulation and the Environment

13. The Culture Wars: From Affirmative Action to the Arts

14. Two Models of Christianity

15. Abortion

16. How Can You Love Your Country and Hate Your Government?

Part V: Summing Up

17. Varieties of Liberals and Conservatives

18. Pathologies, Stereotypes, and Distortions

19. Can There Be a Politics without Family Values?

Part VI: Who's Right? And How Can You Tell?

20. Nonideological Reasons for Being a Liberal

21. Raising Real Children

22. The Human Mind

23. Basic Humanity

Epilogue: Problems for Public Discourse

Afterword

References

Index

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