Conscientious thinking : making sense in an age of idiot savants
Preferred Shelf Number:
149.97 BOS
First Title value, for Searching:
Conscientious thinking : making sense in an age of idiot savants
First Author value, for Searching:
Bosworth, David, 1947- author.
ISBN:
9780820350653
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Physical Description:
pages cm.
Series:
Georgia Review books ; 1
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Foreword / by Stephen Corey -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. a key to the map -- Idiot savants : case studies in the demise of modern reasoning -- Our lord Ford : the commerce of disingenuousness -- Echo and narcissus : the art of anesthesia -- Flatter-fest : the idolatry of literary analysis -- Boxed in : the science of self-deception -- Intermission. Between common senses -- Reality check : plotting a map for post-modern reasoning -- Conscientious thinking : alternatives to modernity in the wake of its demise -- Fields in play : conscientious thinking reforms the sciences -- Together in the ditch : everyday signs of the new conscientiousness -- Marrying the monster : hopes and fears for the post-modern era -- Notes -- Index.
