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- Title: Plagues of the Mind
- Author : Bruce S. Thornton
- Release Date : January 13, 2014
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1160 KB
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A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America’s tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton’s Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West’s tradition of rational, critical inquiry—a legacy now largely jettisoned in favor of a host of new deities, environmentalism, feminism, primitivism, New Age, and the cult of the therapeutic among them.
“Thornton does not mince words and he is not taking any intellectual prisoners.... Thornton’s arguments are bold and frustrating and yet enticing for readers who like to challenge the popular mindset. For ultimately what Thornton is attempting to do is shake us out of our intellectual complacency.” —Foreword Reviews
“Thornton’s exposition is complex, yet as he draws the thoughts and interpretations of an impressive array of social critics into his grand intellectual-historical argument, his prose never becomes obscure, though Al Gore, Vine Deloria, Carol Christ, and other targets of his criticism have reason to wish it had.” —Booklist
“Thornton outlines in vigorous, highly entertaining detail how a number of pseudoscientific hoaxes—including the supposed prevalence of goddess-worship in prehistoric Europe—have become important factors in intellectual life, despite having their origins more in wish-fulfillment than genuine scholarship.” —National Review
“Plagues of the Mind is a worthwhile book that warns of a spreading disease that medical science cannot treat—the inability to think clearly.” —Ideas on Liberty
“Thornton’s critique will not convince those who cannot be convinced, but for fair-minded historically rooted people, this volume is a much-needed antidote to the foolishness that reigns in most of our universities. Plagues, we must remember, are not to be taken lightly; they are deadly dangerous. This one is too.” —Calvin Theological Journal
“Plagues of the Mind is a much needed antidote to the kind of intellectual cancers that contaminate so much of the discourse and assumptions rampant in the general populace today.” —Wisconsin Bookwatch
“Thornton’s lessons provide readers with the principles of critical thinking and research that enable them to approach a new subject well equipped to weight the options and adopt genuine knowledge instead of false knowledge.” —Christian Research Journal
Bruce Thornton grew up on a cattle ranch in Fresno, California. His father was a cowboy and a barber who never attended high school, his mother the child of Italian immigrants. From an early age, Thornton worked on the ranch, and from the experience he acquired a practical realism, a clear-eyed acceptance of the concrete, harsh realities sometimes overlooked or ignored in the ivory-tower academy. He received his B.A. in Latin and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and is currently professor of Classics and Humanities in the Department of Foreign Languages at California State University in Fresno. Thornton is the author of Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality and Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization.
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