{"product_id":"conscientious-thinking-making-sense-in-an-age-of-idiot-savants-paperback","title":"Conscientious Thinking: Making Sense in an Age of Idiot Savants - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Bosworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConscientious Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e, David Bosworth cuts through all the noise of today's political dysfunction and cultural wars to sound the deeper causes of our discontent. Americans are living, he 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. He shows how this disruptive conflict between modern and post-modern modes of reasoning can be found in all advanced fields, including art, medicine, and science, and then traces its impact on our daily actions through such changes as the ways in which friends relate, money is made, crimes are committed, and mates are chosen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust as feudal values had to give way to a modern worldview that more effectively contained the new social reality generated by the printed book, so must our democracy reimagine itself in ways that can domesticate--civilize rather than merely \"monetize\"--a post-modern scene radically transformed by our digital machines. To that end, \u003ci\u003eConscientious Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e supplies not only the means to make sense of our contentious times but also a provisional sketch of what a desirable post-modern America might look like.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDAVID BOSWORTH's fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural essays have been published in numerous journals, including \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAGNI Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalmagundi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRaritan\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Descartes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFrom My Father, Singing\u003c\/i\u003e. A resident of Seattle, Bosworth is a professor in, and the former director of, the University of Washington's creative writing program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759930409248,"sku":"9780820358734","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fec258f21c23f1c4774b920fbe32ceb5.webp?v=1780166495","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/conscientious-thinking-making-sense-in-an-age-of-idiot-savants-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}