Plagues of the mind : the new epidemic of false knowledge / / Bruce S. Thornton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910478903303321
• Autore: Thornton Bruce S.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wilmington, Delaware : , : ISI Books, , [1999]; ©1999
• ISBN: 1-4976-4893-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Disciplina: 149.7
• Soggetti: Truthfulness and falsehood; Error; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: Of the Causes of Error; CHAPTER 1: Knowledge is Virtue; CHAPTER 2: "Feeling is All"; CHAPTER 3: Discontented with Civilization; CHAPTER 4: Tragedy and Therapy; PART II: Of Three Popular and Received Ideas; CHAPTER 5: Romantic Environmentalism; CHAPTER 6: The White Man's Golden Age Red Man; CHAPTER 7: The False Goddess and Her Lost Paradise; CONCLUSION The Examined Life; NOTES; INDEX; Copyright Page
• Sommario/riassunto: <DIV>A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America's tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton's <I>Plagues of the Mind</I> is a forceful vindication of the West's tradition of rational, critical inquiry-a legacy now largely jettisoned in favor of a host of new deities, environmentalism, feminism, primitivism, New Age, and the cult of the therapeutic among them.<BR /><BR /><br clear=""all"" /> </DIV>