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"[An] unusual mix of judicious scholarship, tendentious journalism and inflammatory wake-up call." - Editors' Recommendation, San Francisco Chronicle; "Lakoff, the cognitive linguist, understands 'how' you understand. In Moral Politics, [he] deftly applies that seemingly arcane understanding to the heart of American politics.... His commitment is strong and deep, but his language is far from the rhetoric usually associated with political partisanship.... Even those who disagree with him will profit deeply from encountering his challenging ideas." - Paul Rosenberg, Christian Science Monitor; "Lakoff's stunning book opens a whole new understanding of public discourse in America. Both conservatives and liberals have much to learn from this work." - Robert Bellah, University of California, Berkeley
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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.
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It's about the Family, stupid,
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This review is from: Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition (Paperback)
Natural Law, Science, and the Social Construction of RealityArt Matters: The Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art I see a number of people have reviewed this book so I will keep my comments brief. This is a book all political activists, especially liberals MUST read. Lakoff shows how our views on family relationships are at the basis of our moral views and, therefore, our political views. The important things for me in this book are about how conservatives understand their moral foundations while liberals do not. Liberals believe in reason and try to support their views through reason, but this does not work. Lakoff's analysis of how Gore lost the 2000 election is brilliant. His analysis of metaphor as the basis if moral thinking and how he uses it to show the conservative Strict Father model is based on ideology and not fact is also interesting. If liberals ever want to make serious inroads into conservative political territory, this book is a must read for strategy planning and for understanding how people relate to political argument.
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Lakoff Nails It!,
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This review is from: Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition (Paperback)
George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, has written a brilliant and penetrating analysis of the metaphoric language with which we discuss and argue about moral ideas. He examines the sharply contrasting models of the family that are embraced by conservatives and liberals, and projected onto political life by the "Nation as Family" metaphor.Lakoff is able to give a coherent account of how conservatives can be both pro life and pro death penalty; in favor of making government smaller, but the military and prison system larger; opposed to abortion while also opposed to programs to reduce the need for abortion; patriotic, but anti-government. He sees liberals as having a coherent moral system, but not actually realizing it; instead, the liberals see their constituency as a coalition of interest groups, while overlooking the moral consistency of their positions. Liberals "just don't get it," as conservatives like to say. Is the conservative "Strict Father" model of the family, as projected into public moral life, the correct view; or is the liberal "Nurturant Parent" metaphor more appropriate? Lakoff is at his best in discussing the various "pathologies" of these opposing views. Read it!
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Thought provoking & good intro to child-rearing,
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This review is from: Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition (Paperback)
I thought this book really helped me conceptualize and understand the 'differences' between so-called liberals and conservatives, and to understand that perhaps many debates are not indeed framed in pragmatic or utilitarian fashions, but rather are framed around moral questions. Its helps one understand the 'other side'. Also, being a father of young children, there were many issues raised related to family life that forced me to evaluate my own methods....I think what is missing is a detailed explanation of how one gets to the metaphors that Lakoff describes, and how they are determined. How do we know that these are the 'right' metaphors? And are these metaphors determined by nature, nurture? Are they changeable during one's lifetime? Maybe I need to start with one of Lakoff's earlier books.
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