How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World  -  Wheen, Francis

A Short History of Modern Delusions

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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 nonsens... Lees verder...

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2004 Uitgever: Harper Perennial 338 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0007140975 ISBN-13: 9780007140978