Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia by Makari, George
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia by Makari, George

Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia

By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for...
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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia by Makari, George

Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia

$66.73
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia by Makari, George

Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia

$66.73
Author: George Makari
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea's origins. To his astonishment, he discovered an unfolding series of never-told stories. While a fear and hatred of strangers may be ancient, he found that the notion of a dangerous bias called xenophobia arose not so long ago.

Coined by late-nineteenth-century doctors and political commentators and popularized by an eccentric stenographer, xenophobia emerged alongside Western nationalism, colonialism, mass migration, and genocide. Makari chronicles the concept's rise, from its popularization and perverse misuse to its spread as an ethical principle in the wake of a series of calamites that culminated in the Holocaust, and its sudden reappearance in the twenty-first century. He investigates xenophobia's evolution through the writings of figures such as Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus, and Richard Wright, and innovators like Walter Lippmann, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Frantz Fanon. Weaving together history, philosophy, and psychology, Makari offers insights into varied, related ideas such as the conditioned response, the stereotype, projection, the Authoritarian Personality, the Other, and institutional bias.

Masterful, original, and elegantly written, Of Fear and Strangers offers us a unifying paradigm by which we might more clearly comprehend how irrational anxiety and contests over identity sweep up groups and lead to the dark headlines of division so prevalent today.



Author: George Makari
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.33w x 1.22d
ISBN: 9780393652000


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/28/2021
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2021
Library Journal 07/23/2021 pg. 1

About the Author
Makari, George: - George Makari is a psychiatrist, historian, and the author of Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind and, most recently, Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia. Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, he lives in New York City.
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