Fear : across the disciplines / edited by Jan Plamper and Benjamin Lazier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Benjamin Lazier and Jan Plamper -- Fear, anxiety, and their disorders / Richard J. McNally -- The biology of fear : evolutionary, neural, and psychological perspectives / Arne Ohman -- How did fear become a scientific object and what kind of object is it? / Ruth Leys -- Soldiers and emotion in early twentieth-century Russian military psychology / Jan Plamper -- Fear of a safe place / Jan Mieszkowski -- The language of fear : security and modern politics / Corey Robin -- The New York stock market crash of 1929 / Harold James -- Living dead : fearful attractions of film / Adam Lowenstein.

This volume provides a cross-disciplinary examination of fear, that most unruly of our emotions, by offering a survey of the psychological, biological, and philosophical basis of fear in historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors, leading figures in clinical psychology, neuroscience, the social sciences, and the humanities, consider categories of intentionality, temporality, admixture, spectacle, and politics in evaluating conceptions of fear. Individual chapters treat manifestations of fear in the mass panic of the stock market crash of 1929, as spectacle in warfare and in horror films, and as a political tool to justify security measures in the wake of terrorist acts. They also describe the biological and evolutionary roots of fear, fear as innate versus learned behavior in both humans and animals, and conceptions of human “passions” and their self-mastery from late antiquity to the early modern era.

Print version record.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide