Minds Wide Shut (eBook)

How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us

Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro (Autoren)

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2023
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24257-6 (ISBN)

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A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature-and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set the stage for this crisis: namely, a rise in styles of thought, across a range of fields, that literary scholar Gary Saul Morson and economist Morton Schapiro call "e;fundamentalist."e; In Minds Wide Shut, Morson and Schapiro examine how rigid adherence to ideological thinking has altered politics, economics, religion, and literature in ways that are mutually reinforcing and antithetical to the open-mindedness and readiness to compromise that animate democracy. In response, they propose alternatives that would again make serious dialogue possible.Fundamentalist thinking, Morson and Schapiro argue, is not limited to any one camp. It flourishes across the political spectrum, giving rise to dueling monologues of shouting and abuse between those who are certain that they can't be wrong, that truth and justice are all on their side, and that there is nothing to learn from their opponents, who must be evil or deluded. But things don't have to be this way. Drawing on thinkers and writers from across the humanities and social sciences, Morson and Schapiro show how we might begin to return to meaningful dialogue through case-based reasoning, objective analyses, lessons drawn from literature, and more.The result is a powerful invitation to leave behind simplification, rigidity, and extremism-and to move toward a future of greater open-mindedness, moderation, and, perhaps, even wisdom.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Alternatives • Anton Chekhov • Atheism • Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) • Capitalism • casuistry • Certainty • Christian • christian fundamentalism • Christianity • climate change • Cognitive Bias • Criticism • Darwinism • dialectical materialism • Dialogic • Economics • economist • Ethical Dilemma • ethics • Eugenics • Explanation • Facebook • Falsity • fanaticism • freedom of speech • Free Trade • Gary Saul Morson • Good and evil • hatred • historical criticism • human behavior • Ideology • Irony • Irrationality • irreducible complexity • Jane Austen • Jews • John Stuart Mill • Leo Tolstoy • Literary Realism • Literature • Looking Backward • Market Economy • market fundamentalism • Marxism • Materialism • Midrash • Mikhail Bakhtin • narrative • novelist • On Liberty • On Religion • parable • Philosopher • Philosophy • Politics • Poverty • Prediction • Prejudice • Princeton University Press • Principle • Protestantism • Pseudoscience • Racism • Rationality • reason • Relativism • Religion • religious text • rhetoric • Righteous indignation • Satire • Science • Scientist • Secularization • self-deception • Self-Interest • skepticism • Social Darwinism • Social Science • Stephen Toulmin • Suffering • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Superstition • Symptom • Tax • The Idiot • The Mind of God • theory • The Philosopher • Thought • Totalitarianism • Trade-off • treatise • Uncertainty • Unintended Consequences • World literature • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24257-7 / 0691242577
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24257-6 / 9780691242576