Books and
Cooks West
July 2006
Moral Politics
by George Lakoff
Moral Politics: How
Liberals and Conservatives Think
George Lakoff
Dawn and Jared's place
Saturday, July 29 at 5:30 PM
Our rating: 3.5 cups of tea!
In Moral Politics, the first full-scale application of cognitive science to politics, George Lakoff analyzes the unconscious worldviews of liberals and conservatives, explaining why they are at odds over so many seemingly unrelated issues-like taxes, abortion, regulation, and social programs. The differences, Lakoff argues, are not mere matters of partisanship, but arise from radically different conceptions of morality and ideal family life-meaning that family and morality are at the heart of American politics, in ways that are far from obvious. For this edition, Lakoff adds a preface and an afterword explaining how "moral politics" makes sense of events like the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the 2000 presidential election.
