The Extremism of Everyday Life: Fetishism as a Defense against Existential Uncertainty

Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 131-146

  Landau, Mark J ^a   Rothschild, Zachary K ^a   Sullivan, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural worldview; Existential uncertainty; Extremism, of everyday life; Fetishism; Fetishism and extremism; Fetishization of force; Military, police power; Nonexistential uncertainty; Personal uncertainty; Psychological defense

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874531357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444344073.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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