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Fool's Paradise
Stewart Justman
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Description for Fool's Paradise
Hardback. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 170 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Through the channels of the mass media, celebrity psychologists urge us to realize that society has robbed us of our authentic selves. That every moral standard or prohibition imposes on our selfhoods. That what we have inherited from the past is false. That we ourselves are the only truth in a world of lies. That we must challenge "virtually everything." That we must "wipe the slate clean and start over." Each of these "principles" is a commonplace of pop psychology, and each has almost unimaginably radical implications. Where did pop psychology come from, and what are its promises—and fallacies? How ... Read more
Through the channels of the mass media, celebrity psychologists urge us to realize that society has robbed us of our authentic selves. That every moral standard or prohibition imposes on our selfhoods. That what we have inherited from the past is false. That we ourselves are the only truth in a world of lies. That we must challenge "virtually everything." That we must "wipe the slate clean and start over." Each of these "principles" is a commonplace of pop psychology, and each has almost unimaginably radical implications. Where did pop psychology come from, and what are its promises—and fallacies? How ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636285
SKU
V9781566636285
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About Stewart Justman
Stewart Justman won the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay for his book Seeds of Mortality, published by Ivan R. Dee in 2003. Mr. Justman teaches English at the University of Montana and has also written The Springs of Liberty and The Psychological Mystique. He is married with two children and lives in Missoula, Montana.
Reviews for Fool's Paradise
Pop psychology has been unmasked before, but English professor Stewart Justman provides a fresh critical angle.
David J. Pittenger, associate provost for academic administration at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Justman's witty and astringent appraisal of the world of pop psychology...is an essential social corrective as well as a vastly entertaining and stimulating book.
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David J. Pittenger, associate provost for academic administration at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Justman's witty and astringent appraisal of the world of pop psychology...is an essential social corrective as well as a vastly entertaining and stimulating book.
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Justman ... Read more