The middle mind : why Americans don't think for themselves / Curtis White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Curtis, 1951-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social values--United States.

Social values.

United States.

Critical thinking.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Social conditions.

United States--Moral conditions.

Moral conditions.

Social history.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 205 pages ; 214 cm

Edition:

First HarperCollins paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.

Summary:

Acclaimed social critic Curtis White describes an all-encompassing and little-noticed force taking over our culture and our lives that he calls the Middle Mind: the current failure of the American imagination in the media, politics, education, art, technology, and religion. Irreverent, provocative, and far-reaching, White presents a clear vision of this dangerous mindset that threatens America's intellectual and cultural freedoms, concluding with an imperative to reawaken and unleash the once powerful American imagination.

The Middle Mind is pragmatic, plainspoken, populist, contemptuous of the Right's narrowness, and incredulous before the Left's convolutions. It wants to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and has bought an SUV with the intent of visiting it. It even understands in some indistinct way how that very SUV spells the Arctic's doom.

Contents:

The middle mind

such an awesome site of resistance

the great American disaster machine

the highway of despair leads to a world in love

notes toward the next American sublime.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: c2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-205).

ISBN:

0060730595

9780060730598

OCLC:

56639129