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Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, cartea 91

Autor Stephen J. A. Ward
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 oct 2024
Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy Stephen Ward combines history and evolutionary psychology for a comprehensive view of the problem, arguing that social irrationality is likely to occur when social tensions trigger a person’s enemy stance: ancient extreme traits in human nature such as aggressiveness, desire for domination, paranoia of the other, and us-versus-them tribalism. Analyzing eruptions of public irrationality – from apocalyptic medieval crusades and Nazi doctors in extermination camps to suicidal cults – Ward presents his evolutionary theory of public irrationalism, demonstrating that human nature has both extreme Darwinian traits promoting competition and sociable traits of cooperation and empathy. The issue is which set of traits will be activated by the social ecology. Extreme traits, once adaptive when humans were hunter-gatherers, have become maladaptive and dangerous. Catalyzed by intolerant media and demagogues, the swing towards the irrational weakens democracy and may lead to human extinction through nuclear holocaust. Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy concludes with practical recommendations on what society should do to resist the engines of unreason within and without us.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780228020028
ISBN-10: 0228020026
Pagini: 450
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: McGill-Queen's University Press
Colecția McGill-Queen's University Press
Seria McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas


Recenzii

“Ward offers original insights into what increasingly appears to be a systemic crisis of Western democracies, demonstrating the imperative need to call on the humanities to untangle the multilayered, complex emergencies of our times.” François Heinderyckx, Université libre de Bruxelles

Notă biografică

Stephen J.A. Ward is professor emeritus and distinguished lecturer in ethics at the University of British Columbia and award-winning author ot editor of thirteen books on ethics and media ethics, including Objectively Engaged Journalism: An Ethic.

Descriere

Stephen Ward combines history and evolutionary psychology for a comprehensive view of the social irrationality plaguing democracies. Human nature has both extreme Darwinian traits promoting competition and sociable traits of cooperation and empathy. When social tensions trigger the former, they become maladaptive and dangerous.