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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554273103321

Autore

Morson Gary Saul <1948->

Titolo

Minds wide shut : how the new fundamentalisms divide us / / Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-691-24257-7

0-691-21491-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 307 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Classificazione

QD 000

Disciplina

303.38

Soggetti

Ideology

Polarization (Social sciences)

Extremists

Religious fundamentalism

Ideology and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fundamentalism Writ Large -- Fundamentalism and its Alternatives: From Fanaticism to Dialogue -- Divided We Stand: The Politics of Hate -- Price and Prejudice: Economics and the Quest for Truth -- Searching for Eternal Truths: Religion and its Discontents -- Literature: How to Ruin It and Why You Shouldn't -- Path Forward -- Chekhov With the Final Word.

Sommario/riassunto

"Gary Saul Morson, a literature scholar at Northwestern, and Morton Schapiro, an economist, and president of Northwestern, are authors of our book Cents and Sensibilities, on what economists, who tend to reduce reality to economic fundamentalist thinking, can do to correct and enhance their accounts of social life. In their new book, Morton and Schapiro extend their discussion to encompass not only the market fundamentalism of economics, but various other forms of intellectual fundamentalism from politics through religion through literature. In each case and overall, they emphasize the importance of cross-disciplinary dialogue in correcting the errors of these diferent academics fundamentalisms, while helping to construct richer accounts



of culture and society"--