How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780786723522
ISBN-13 : 0786723521
Rating : 4/5 (521 Downloads)

Book Synopsis How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by : Francis Wheen

Download or read book How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World written by Francis Wheen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2005-07-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of Enlightenment 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.


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