Description: Be Very Afraid : The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats, Paperback by Wuthnow, Robert, ISBN 0199964025, ISBN-13 9780199964024, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 publisher description.
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Book Title: Be Very Afraid : The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Envi
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Be Very Afraid : The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Military / Nuclear Warfare, Terrorism, Sociology / General, Military / Weapons, Anxieties & Phobias, General, Global Warming & Climate Change, Epidemiology, Emergency Management
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.7 Oz
Author: Robert Wuthnow
Subject Area: Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Self-Help, Science, Psychology, Medical, History
Item Length: 6.1 in
Item Width: 9.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
