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Fear : Across the Disciplines /
This volume provides a cross-disciplinary examination of fear, that most unruly of our emotions, by offering a survey of the psychological, biological, and philosophical basis of fear in historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors, leading figures in clinical psychology, neuroscience, the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | This volume provides a cross-disciplinary examination of fear, that most unruly of our emotions, by offering a survey of the psychological, biological, and philosophical basis of fear in historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors, leading figures in clinical psychology, neuroscience, the social sciences, and the humanities, consider categories of intentionality, temporality, admixture, spectacle, and politics in evaluating conceptions of fear. Individual chapters treat manifestations of fear in the mass panic of the stock market crash of 1929, as spectacle in warfare and in horror films, and as a political tool to justify security measures in the wake of terrorist acts. They also describe the biological and evolutionary roots of fear, fear as innate versus learned behavior in both humans and animals, and conceptions of human "passions" and their self-mastery from late antiquity to the early modern era. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (247 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780822978138 |