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In Fear: An Alternative History of the World, Robert Peckham considers the impact of fear in history, as both a coercive tool of power and as a catalyst for social change. Beginning with the Black Death in the fourteenth century, Peckham traces a shadow history of fear.
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Jul 21, 2017 · In this blog post I look at the role that fear has played throughout our evolutionary history – looking back to when it was still beneficial and examining how it can fall short of our modern-day needs.
May 3, 2020 · As the neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, an expert on the brain circuitry of fear, emphasizes in his book Anxious, we know that the physical fear response and the emotional feeling of fear are ...
Nov 1, 2023 · In my book, Fear: An Alternative History of the World, I show why this focus on fear came about. In the mid-fourteenth century, a bubonic plague pandemic killed up to 50 percent of Europe’s...
Among many haunting lines in T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land, ‘I will show you fear in a handful of dust’ stands out for its sinister suggestions of death, mortality, and the ultimate futility of all human endeavour.
Sep 7, 2023 · In Fear: An Alternative History of the World, Robert Peckham considers the impact of fear in history, as both a coercive tool of power and as a catalyst for social change. Beginning with the Black Death in the fourteenth century, Peckham traces a shadow history of fear.
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Nov 9, 2020 · Many of the fears we have today are likely to have been inherited from our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Our ancestors lived in an immediate return environment, whereby they would detect a threat and respond immediately.
