Be very afraid
the cultural response to terror, pandemics, environmental devastation, nuclear annihilation, and other threats
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Word Count
73,500 words, Guess
Page Count
294 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebeveryafraidcult0000wuth
- Internet Archivebeveryafraidcult0000wuth_w5e7
- ISBN-100199730873
- ISBN-139780199730872
- Library of Congress Control Number2009026879
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number436221092
- Better World Books9780199730872
- Open LibraryOL24378982M
Classifications
- DDC303.48/5
- LCCHV551.2 .W88 2010
- LCCHV551.2.W88 2010
and 1 more
- LCCHV551.2 .W88 2012
Description
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 harmful.--From publisher description.
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