Minds Wide Shut av Gary Saul Morson

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<p><b>A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature¿and what can be done to fight it</b><br><br>Polarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set the stage for this crisis: namely, a rise in styles of thought, across a range of fields, that literary scholar Gary Saul Morson and economist Morton Schapiro call ¿fundamentalist.¿ In <i>Minds Wide Shut</i>, Morson and Schapiro examine how rigid adherence to ideological thinking has altered politics, economics, religion, and literature in ways that are mutually reinforcing and antithetical to the open-mindedness and readiness to compromise that animate democracy. In response, they propose alternatives that would again make serious dialogue possible.<br><br>Fundamentalist thinking, Morson and Schapiro argue, is not limited to any one camp. It flourishes across the political spectrum, giving rise to dueling monolog