{"product_id":"ideological-fixation-from-the-stone-age-to-todays-culture-wars-hardcover","title":"Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAzar Gat\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCombining insights from evolutionary psychology with a broad sweep through history, down to the ideological civil war ripping the United States apart, the book explores the deeper roots of people's inability to accept claims about reality which come from the opposite ideological camp, no matter how valid they might be. \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter theorists around 1960 proclaimed the 'death of ideology', ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with renewed intensity throughout the world. In the United States they have become particularly venomous. Each side in America's escalating ideological civil war charges the other with concocting 'fake news' and 'alternative facts'. The other side is widely viewed as malicious, irrational or downright stupid, and, often, as barely legitimate. People are deaf to claims about reality that come from the opposite camp, no matter how valid they might be. The zeal of the opposing sides is often scarcely less than that which characterized the religious ideologies of old. Indeed, historical religious ideologies have largely been replaced by 'secular religions' or 'religion substitutes'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIdeology consists of normative prescriptions regarding how society should be shaped, together with an interpretive roadmap indicating how this normative vision can be implemented in reality. \u003cem\u003eIdeological Fixation\u003c\/em\u003e is the result of tensions and conflicts between these two elements. The book focuses on ideologies' factual claims about the world, typically subordinate to, and often distorted by, their normative commitment. In exploring this phenomenon, the book combines insights from evolutionary psychology regarding the nature of some of our deepest proclivities with a broad sweep through history and around the world. It proceeds from the Stone Age to the rise of civilization, the great religions and modernity, to a critique of fundamental factual premises that underlie some of the major debates dominating today's liberal democracies, not least the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAzar Gat\u003c\/strong\u003e is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of nine books, including, more recently: \u003cem\u003eA History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War \u003c\/em\u003e(Oxford, 2001); \u003cem\u003eWar in Human Civilization\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2006), named one of the best books of the year by the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/em\u003e(TLS); \u003cem\u003eVictorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is still Imperiled \u003c\/em\u003e(2010); \u003cem\u003eNations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism\u003c\/em\u003e (2013); \u003cem\u003eThe Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound?\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2017); and \u003cem\u003eWar and Strategy in the Modern World: From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terrorism\u003c\/em\u003e, (collected articles and essays, 2018). His books have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Turkish, and Hebrew. He has held visiting positions at Oxford, Yale, Ohio State, Georgetown, \u003cbr\u003eHoover-Stanford, Freiburg, Munich, and Constance. In 2019 he was awarded the EMET Prize in the fields of Political Science and Strategy. Granted under the auspices of the Prime Minister's office, it is considered Israel's highest scholarly prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.22 x 9.36 x 6.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782487310624,"sku":"9780197646700","price":61.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/79e8f065f9f2a95531f2bf1167296d8a.webp?v=1780572169","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ideological-fixation-from-the-stone-age-to-todays-culture-wars-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}