How To Think
A Guide for the Perplexed
How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.Most of us don't want to think, writes the American essayist Alan Jacobs. Thinking is trouble. It can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that's a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the echo chamber of social media, where speed and factionalism trump accuracy and nuance.In this clever, witty book, Jacobs diagnoses t…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78125-957-3
- EAN: 9781781259573
- Produktnummer: 26323210
- Verlag: Profile Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.5 cm 138 g
- Gewicht: 138
Über den Autor
Alan Jacobs is the Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Baylor University. He has written extensively for the Atlantic, WSJ, the New Atlantis, and Harper's and is the author of several books, including a well-received biography of C. S. Lewis and a book on the pleasures of reading. Find him on twitter @ayjay and visit his website at http://blog.ayjay.org/
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