Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro - Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us

MINDS WIDE SHUT

Minds Wide Shut

HOW THE NEW FUNDAMENTALISMS DIVIDE US

GARY SAUL MORSON

MORTON SCHAPIRO

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

PRINCETON &OXFORD

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Morson, Gary Saul, 1948- author. | Schapiro, Morton Owen, author.

Title: Minds wide shut : how the new fundamentalisms divide us / Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro.

Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020032355 (print) | LCCN 2020032356 (ebook) | ISBN 9780691214917 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780691214931 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Ideology. | Polarization (Social sciences) | Extremists. | Religious fundamentalism. | Ideology and literature.

Classification: LCC HM641 .M677 2021 (print) | LCC HM641 (ebook) | DDC 303.38dc3

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