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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
- 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
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE