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Thursday, April 21, 2005

Lakoff and Ault on conservative frames.

by Philocrites

Back in February, I called attention to Doug Muder's essay, "Red Family, Blue Family: Making Sense of the Values Issue." (Available here.) A shorter version appears in the new issue of UU World, focused on George Lakoff's Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think and James M. Ault Jr's Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church. See "Making Sense of the Conservative Worldview."

Copyright © 2005 by Philocrites | Posted 21 April 2005 at 9:40 PM

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5 comments:

TransparentEye:

April 21, 2005 11:01 PM | Permalink for this comment

Lakoff is getting there, but I don't think he and his admirers quite get how much, in times of insecurity, people want a fierce protector rather than nurturing parent. I don't see this changing any time soon.

Matthew:

April 22, 2005 09:41 AM | Permalink for this comment

Wow. Thanks for repeating your reference to Muder's essay. I think that's going to be useful.

Guess I better go read Lakoff.

Matthew:

April 25, 2005 04:46 PM | Permalink for this comment

Hm. Trackback URL doesen't seem to be working. Shout at me if you're not seeing an error.

Philocrites:

April 25, 2005 05:54 PM | Permalink for this comment

Matthew's response to Muder's essay is at Liberal Jesus.

Doug Muder:

April 29, 2005 03:16 PM | Permalink for this comment

As I just pointed out on Matthew's blog, I actually didn't write Internet for Dummies. I have an irrational fear that this factoid will mushroom into my Al-Gore-claimed-to-invent-the-Internet moment.

Other than that detail, I found the comments quite useful.



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