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- Condition
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- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Crown Publishing Group, The
- ISBN
- 9780451499608
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0451499603
ISBN-13
9780451499608
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234237890
Product Key Features
Book Title
How to Think : a Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Popular Culture, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science, Business & Economics, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
8.4 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-052795
Reviews
"Witty, engaging, and ultimately hopeful, Jacobs's guide is sorely needed in a society where partisanship too often trumps the pursuit of knowledge." -- Publishers Weekly "Just when it feels like we've all lost our minds, here comes Alan Jacobs's How to Think , a book infused with the thoughtfulness, generosity, and humor of a lifelong teacher. Do what I did: Sign off social media, find a cozy spot to read, and get your mind back again. A mindful book for our mindless times." --Austin Kleon, bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist "I disagree passionately with Alan Jacobs about a number of very important things, but this indispensable book shows me how to take him by the hand while we argue, rather than the throat. In troublingly stupid times, it offers a toolbox for the restoration of nuance, self-knowledge and cognitive generosity." --Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill and Unapologetic "We tend to regard thinking as an exclusively individual experience that operates at the intersection of neural activity and personal consciousness. But we miss the ways our thinking is shaped by the social environment we live in. In this slim and beautifully written volume, Alan Jacobs provides a courageous, erudite and deeply humane corrective." --James Davison Hunter, professor at University of Virginia, author of Culture Wars and To Change the World, "Witty, engaging, and ultimately hopeful, Jacobs's guide is sorely needed in a society where partisanship too often trumps the pursuit of knowledge." -- Publishers Weekly "Wonderful . . . a lively antidote to magical thinking." -- Christianity Today "Just when it feels like we've all lost our minds, here comes Alan Jacobs's How to Think , a book infused with the thoughtfulness, generosity, and humor of a lifelong teacher. Do what I did: Sign off social media, find a cozy spot to read, and get your mind back again. A mindful book for our mindless times." --Austin Kleon, bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist "As much as this book is a manual, it's also a self-portrait of a particular mind, whose style and skills are ballast against the cognitive turbulence of our time. Reading How to Think feels like riding in a small but sturdy boat, Alan Jacobs your pilot through turbulent waters -- and if you're eager to get where he's taking you, you're also grateful for the chance to simply watch him do his thing." --Robin Sloan, bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore "I disagree passionately with Alan Jacobs about a number of very important things, but this indispensable book shows me how to take him by the hand while we argue, rather than the throat. In troublingly stupid times, it offers a toolbox for the restoration of nuance, self-knowledge and cognitive generosity." --Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill and Unapologetic "We tend to regard thinking as an exclusively individual experience that operates at the intersection of neural activity and personal consciousness. But we miss the ways our thinking is shaped by the social environment we live in. In this slim and beautifully written volume, Alan Jacobs provides a courageous, erudite and deeply humane corrective." --James Davison Hunter, professor at University of Virginia, author of Culture Wars and To Change the World
Synopsis
"Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." --David Brooks, New York Times 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. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's , Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us--political, social, religious--Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply aren't thinking. Most of us don't want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking 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 spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias. In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking--forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, "alternative facts," and information overload--and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It's impossible to "think for yourself.") Drawing on sources as far-flung as novelist Marilynne Robinson, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, British philosopher John Stuart Mill, and Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, Jacobs digs into the nuts and bolts of the cognitive process, offering hope that each of us can reclaim our mental lives from the impediments that plague us all. Because if we can learn to think together, maybe we can learn to live together, too.
LC Classification Number
BF441.J275 2017
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