The Ideology of Hatred: The Psychic Power of Discourse Tapa blanda - 2012 - 1st Edición

Fordham University Press, 2012-12-24. Paperback. Very Good+. Still looks new! Binding is tight/sturdy/square; text clean; shelfwear minimal. An excellent copy. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Fordham University Press, 2012-12-24. 1. paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New. The book advances a new theoretical framework for understanding the politics of national hatred as a discourse which characterizes today's many national, ethnic and religious conflicts. It offers a critique of hatred as an ideological apparatus of power that operates within discourse as a defense strategy.

Fordham Univ Pr, 2012. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 168 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Fordham University Press, 2012-12-24. 1. paperback. Used:Good.

ISBN: 9780823250059
Fordham University Press  | 24 December 2012
Paperback  |168 pages
Description
The 21st century might well be called the age of hatred. This is not because there is more violence in the world but because hatred has been transformed from a concept perceived to be a by-product of personal or collective violence into a discursive field. But what if longstanding antagonisms, especially those between social groups, turned out to involve desire rather than revulsion?
The Ideology of Hatred develops a psychosocial framework for understanding this new phenomenon by interrogating unconscious mechanisms within national discourse. It opens new and timely venues for thinking about the paradoxes of love and hate while raising questions about social attachment and otherness. Is it possible that hatred operates by maintaining a safe closeness, enhancing the illusion of separateness as well as a sense of proximity at one and the same time? Could it be that love actually survives through the… Leer más