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portada How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Category
Política
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780007140978

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (in English)

Francis Wheen (Author) · Harper Perennial · Paperback

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (in English) - Francis Wheen

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Synopsis "How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (in English)"

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 ofEnlightenment 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. --Este texto se refiere a la edición Paperback .

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