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MINDS WIDE SHUT: HOW THE NEW FUNDAMENTALISMS DIVIDE US

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<P>This book offers 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 the authors, a literary scholar and an economist, call <Q>fundamentalist.</Q> In this book, they 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, they 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, the authors 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.</P>

Minds Wide Shut

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Other Frontmatter.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Preface: Toward Dialogue.
1: Fundamentalism Writ Large.
2: Fundamentalism and Its Alternatives: From Fanaticism to Dialogue.
3: Divided We Stand&#xFF1A;The Politics of Hate.
4: Price and Prejudice: Economics and the Quest for Truth.
5: Searching for Eternal Truths: Religion and Its Discontents.
6: Literature: How to Ruin It and Why You Shouldn&#x0027;t.
7: A Path Forward.
Index.
A Note on the Type.

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