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"The general argument is as follows: sociopolitical experience is constructed from the collective imagination of constituents. Far from ephemerality, imagination materially impacts our daily lives. Contemporary society, largely failed by enlightenment"
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Thanks for the lovely review. I would be curious how the newest crop of students respond to any excerpts given their differing historical and cultural
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"This is a really ambitious book--maybe more ambitious than at first meets the eye? Everyone seems to think they have a policy solution to the sorry state of US politics right now. And yet even this country's most experienced politicians, community or"
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"This book is so wonderfully weird. It draws on More’s Utopia to think through the social failures and successes of the last century. The chapter on Marxism is brutal and pushes well beyond the usual criticism, for instance about lacking an ethics or "
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“Human agency is far more plastic and heterogeneous than rational choice allows. Rational choice fails to explain human behavior because it does not grapple with the range of possible meanings that motivate human life. In the rush to establish a universal, scientific anthropology, this theory neglects human beings’ distinguishing feature: their ability to embody meanings.”
― We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power
― We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power
“Even James Madison, who believed that interest would check interest in a federal society, never imagined that self-interest alone could sustain a republic. As he noted in his speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, delivered in June 1788: “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue is a chimerical idea.”
― We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power
― We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power
“Indeed, a culture of scientism helps produce a culture that also rejects genuine scientific authority. The scientism studied in these pages, by falsely trading on an authority it does not wield, helps to sow a wider skepticism and cynicism about the 'elite' voices of scientists as such. A disturbing increase in science denial (e.g. conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers) is in a mutually supporting dialectic with the absolute scientism of a Pinker or a Dawkins. Although they have not yet realized it, figures like Pinker and Dawkins, far from defending science, undermine it by overpromising and exaggerating its authority. Ultra-Darwinists and biblical literalists are dance partners”
― We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power
― We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power