Thinking is trouble. It can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. It is an understatement to argue that our nation and, indeed, the world is significantly divided. This is not a new phenomenon, really, though the nature of the division is somewhat different.
Anyone who lived through the social polarizations of the Vietnam era in the US is likely to recognize some similar patterns of division, especially in the apparently significant division of thought between younger and older generations. However, as Neil Postman shows in his classic volume, Entertaining Ourselves to Death , our culture has cultivated an alternative epistemology by producing and consuming media that shape us in ways that tend to undermine our ability to sustain cogent thought for extended periods of time.
My review of that book left more questions than answers about how to overcome this seismic shift in the way we know. In his book, How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds , Alan Jacobs actively tackles that challenge, offering an approach to thinking that promises to begin to unravel the tangled know to social dissonance.
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Jacobss emphasis on the relational nature of thinking is essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now. Back when they wrote the book of Proverbs it was said, By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. These days, a soft tongue doesnt get you very far, but someday it might again. Example fallback content : This browser does not support PDFs. These readings are available to download for free.
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I originally thought Keep Going would have more about the senses in it, so I picked this up for research. Very dense, lush book. Alan Jacobs born [1] is a scholar of English literature, writer, and literary critic. Format: Hardcover. People also ask. In How to Think : A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, author Alan Jacobs argues that people have thoughts affected by their surroundings and explains how people can remove some of the problems resulting from a lack of individual critical thought.
How to Think Summary - eNotes. In seven brief chapters, Mr.
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