Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us

by Morton Schapiro and Gary Saul Morson

Book Overview

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."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691214913
• ISBN13: 9780691214917
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"