A Passion for Ignorance : : What We Choose Not to Know and Why / / Renata Salecl.
An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumaticIgnorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that we...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Many Faces of Ignorance
- 2. Empty Graves: Ignorance, Forgetting, and Denial in War
- 3. The Secret in the Body: Knowledge and Ignorance about Genes
- 4. Denial of Illness
- 5. Love Is Blind
- 6. The Fear of Being Ignored: From Incel to Impostor
- 7. The Delusion of Big Data
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index