Minds Wide Shut : : How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us / / Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro.
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...
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Morson, Gary Saul, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Minds Wide Shut : How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us / Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (336 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Toward Dialogue -- Minds Wide Shut -- 1 Fundamentalism Writ Large -- 2 Fundamentalism and Its Alternatives: From Fanaticism to Dialogue -- 3 Divided We Stand: The Politics of Hate -- 4 Price and Prejudice: Economics and the Quest for Truth -- 5 Searching for Eternal Truths: Religion and Its Discontents -- 6 Literature: How to Ruin It and Why You Shouldn’t -- 7 A Path Forward -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 “fundamentalist.” 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 a wide range of 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Extremists. Ideology and literature. Ideology. Polarization (Social sciences). Religious fundamentalism. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General. bisacsh Adam Smith. Bible. Chekhov. Enemies. climate change. death of dialogue. empathy. extremism. humanism and economics. humanistic economics. ideologues. market fundamentalism. political polarization. problem of certainty. pseudoscience. radical skepticism. silo. threats to democracy. tyranny of experts. value of dialogue. Schapiro, Morton, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2021 English 9783110754049 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics 2021 9783110753820 ZDB-23-DBV Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739121 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214931?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691214931 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691214931/original |
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