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Author:

White, Curtis, 1951-

Title:

The middle mind : why Americans don't think for themselves / Curtis White.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

HarperSanFrancisco,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

205 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social values--United States.
Critical thinking.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
United States--Moral conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-205).

Contents:

The middle mind -- Such an awesome site of resistance -- The great American disaster machine -- The highway of despair leads to a world in love -- Notes toward the next American sublime.

Summary:

Social critic Curtis White describes a little-noticed force taking over our culture and our lives that he calls the Middle Mind: the current failure of the American imagination in the media, politics, education, art, technology, and religion. Irreverent, provocative, and far-reaching, contemptuous of the Right's narrowness and incredulous before the Left's convolutions, White presents a clear vision of this dangerous mindset that threatens America's intellectual and cultural freedoms, concluding with an imperative to reawaken and unleash the once powerful American imagination.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

9780060524364
0060524367

LCCN:

2004268272

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