A passion for ignorance : what we choose not to know and why /

A passion for ignorance : what we choose not to know and why /

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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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Main Author: Salecl, Renata, 1962- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter Co, Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Princeton, New Jersey : [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) > Social aspects
DNA
Jacques Lacan
Nancy Tuana
Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies
Stuart Firestein
Susie Orbach
anti vaxxers
choosing to be ignorant
climate denial
climate deniers
denial of illness
denial
doctor patient relationship
fake news
fear of being ignored
ignorance studies
ignoring infidelity
information overload
involuntary celibacy
involuntary celibates
love is blind
neuroscience
protective ignorance
psychoanalysis
romantic relationships
strategic ignorance
willful ignorance
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Social aspects
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