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Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge Hardcover - 1999
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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.
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- Date 1999
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Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 1999. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (24.95). No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Inner hinges are perfect. Pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original black cloth with shiny gold lettering on the spine. From Ray Olson's review in Booklist: "Rather than cleaving contemporary intellectual foolishness to its historical roots, Thornton starts at those roots, advances from the crucial eighteenth century to the present, and concludes with case studies of three modern loci of falsehood -- romantic environmentalism, the American Indian as ethical paragon, and goddess worship. The trouble all began with the Enlightenment assumption, founded on similar dispositions in classical Greek philosophy and scholastic Christianity, that knowledge bred virtue. Once a person knew the good, reason would compel realizing it, for…
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