Francis Wheen

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World

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 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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7867-2352-2
EAN: 9780786723522
Produktnummer: 22911611
Verlag: PublicAffairs
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 416 KB

Über den Autor

Francis Wheen is deputy editor of Private Eye and the editor of Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, the author of the bestselling How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World and Karl Marx: A Life, and a former columnist in the London Guardian. He has contributed to Vanity Fair, the Nation, the New Yorker, LA Times, and Washington Post, and has appeared on C-SPAN's Booknotes and National Public Radio.