Book: Plagues Of The Mind: The New Epidemic Of False Knowledge Mass literacy, mass communication, and the Internet have all increased the amount of information available. But false knowledge still abounds. Taking cues from Sir Thomas Browne, the English Renaissance skeptic, this title examines a host of contemporary errors in thinking and offers a powerful explanation of why they occur.
Classicist Bruce Thornton's Plagues of the Mind 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 theme.
Details of Book: Plagues Of The Mind: The New Epidemic Of False Knowledge Book: Plagues Of The Mind: The New Epidemic Of False Knowledge
Author: Bruce S. Thornton
ISBN: 188292634X
ISBN-13: 9781882926343
, 978-1882926343
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: Nov 1999
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Number of Pages: 303
Language: English