Modern Delusions

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How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World

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Author : Francis Wheen
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2005-07-06

How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World written by Francis Wheen and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-06 with Political Science categories.

What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, Wheen shows that there has been a pervasive erosion of Enlightenment values, which have been displaced by nonsense. And no country has a more vivid parade of the bogus and bizarre than the one founded to embody Enlightenment values: the USA. In turn comic, indignant, outraged, and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World is a masterful depiction of the absurdity of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.

Modern Delusions

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Author : Ben Marquis Bogard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??

Modern Delusions written by Ben Marquis Bogard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 19?? with Christianity categories.

Idiot Proof

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Author : Francis Wheen
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2004-06-01

Idiot Proof written by Francis Wheen and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-01 with Political Science categories.

In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and assertive "Victorian values." In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History. What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof , columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political era—including Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologer—while lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century. In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.

Ancient And Modern Delusions

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Author : Edward Pelling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1679

Ancient And Modern Delusions written by Edward Pelling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1679 with categories.

Get Real

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Author : Eliane Glaser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

Get Real written by Eliane Glaser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Delusions categories.

Epidemic Delusions

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Author : Amos Norton Craft
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881

Epidemic Delusions written by Amos Norton Craft and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Occultism categories.

Timeless Truths And Modern Delusions

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Author : Harry Oldmeadow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-24

Timeless Truths And Modern Delusions written by Harry Oldmeadow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-24 with categories.

Cognitive Confusions

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Author : Ita Mac Carthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09-28

Cognitive Confusions written by Ita Mac Carthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-28 with History categories.

A distinctively human aspect of the mind is its ability to handle both factual and counterfactual scenarios. This brings enormous advantages, but we are far from infallible in monitoring the boundaries between the real, the imaginary and the pathological. In the early modern period, particularly, explorations of the mind's ability to roam beyond the factual became mainstream. It was an age of perspective art, anamorphism and optical illusions; of prophecy, apocalyptic dreams, and visions; and of fascination with the supernatural. This volume takes a fresh look at early modern understandings of how to distinguish reality from dream, or delusion from belief. Opening with cognitivist and philosophical perspectives, Cognitive Confusions then examines test cases from across European literature, providing an original documentation of the mind in its most creative and pathological states.

Modern Delusions Ritualism Its Demon Origin Etc

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Author : Rev. GORDON (Dr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891

Modern Delusions Ritualism Its Demon Origin Etc written by Rev. GORDON (Dr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.

Cognitive Confusions

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Author : Ita Mac Carthy
language : en
Publisher: Legenda
Release Date : 2016

Cognitive Confusions written by Ita Mac Carthy and has been published by Legenda this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Delusions in literature categories.

A distinctively human aspect of the mind is its ability to handle both factual and counterfactual scenarios. This brings enormous advantages, but we are far from infallible in monitoring the boundaries between the real, the imaginary and the pathological. In the early modern period, particularly, explorations of the mind's ability to roam beyond the factual became mainstream. It was an age of perspective art, anamorphism and optical illusions; of prophecy, apocalyptic dreams, and visions; and of fascination with the supernatural. This volume takes a fresh look at early modern understandings of how to distinguish reality from dream, or delusion from belief. Opening with cognitivist and philosophical perspectives, Cognitive Confusions then examines test cases from across European literature, providing an original documentation of the mind in its most creative and pathological states.