Conscientious Thinking - Making Sense in an Age of Idiot Savants

Informationen zum Autor DAVID BOSWORTH's fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural essays have been published in numerous journals, including The Georgia Review , AGNI Review , Salmagundi , Ploughshares , and Raritan . He is the author of The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession , The Death of Descartes , and From My Father, Singing . A resident of Seattle, Bosworth is a professor in, and the former director of, the University of Washington's creative writing program. Klappentext Cuts through all the noise of today's political dysfunction and cultural wars to sound the deeper causes of discontent. Americans are living! David Bosworth argues! in a profoundly transitional era! one in which the commonsense beliefs of the first truly modern society are being undermined by the still crude but irreversible forces set loose by technology's drastic revision of our everyday lives. Zusammenfassung David Bosworth cuts through all the noise of today’s political dysfunction and cultural wars to sound the deeper causes of our discontent. He explores the ways in which Americans are affected by the irreversible forces set loose by technology’s drastic revision of our everyday lives.

Product details

• Authors: David Bosworth, David/ Corey Bosworth
• Assisted by: Stephen Corey (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780820350653
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5065-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Georgia Review Books; Georgia Review Books; Georgia Review Books Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism