George Lakoff’s New Happiness: Politics after Rationality (10.1007/s12129-009-9130-x)
John B. Parrott
Dr. Parrott takes a look at modern political reality according to George Lakoff, Berkeley professor of linguistics and cognitive science and progressive intellectual guru to the Democratic Party. Lakoff favors a visceral approach to politics, and Dr. Parrott carefully examines how Lakoff makes extraordinary claims about the way we think by rejecting reason and rationality as they have been understood in the West for over twenty-five hundred years.
Remapping Geography (10.1007/s12129-009-9134-6)
Jonathan M. Smith, Texas A&M University, and Jim Norwine, Texas A&M University
Professors Smith and Norwine take a rowdy tour through “the bawdy saloon of progressive politics, cultural nihilism, and subjective epistemology” to describe how contemporary cultural geography has pulled up a stool and joined the new orthodoxy on campus.
Stimulating Economics (10.1007/s12129-009-9132-8
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