Binding: Paperback
Description: A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics economics religion and literature and what can be done to fight it Polarization 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 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.
Title: Minds Wide Shut How The New Fundamentalisms Divide Us
Author(s): Schapiro Morton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691214924
Pages: 344 Pages
Publication Date: 1/31/2023
Category: Behavioural Economics