With clarity and wit, Kaminer argues that we are society intoxicated by the irrational: religion, spirituality, and popular therapies threaten to replace rational thought with supernaturalism and a belief in personal testimony, no matter how unsubstantiated.
Bound to provoke controversy, a scathing and witty look at America's obsession with self-help. In the name of individualism, Kaminer concludes, the self-help movement has created a cult of victimization in which everyone is labeled abused. But instead of offering a cure, Kaminer offers a perspective that will change the way readers think about ...
From our decrying of the abuse excuse to our cheers of Free the Juice, our reactions to violent crime fluctuate wildly. Expanding on her well-known ideas about self-help and the American psyche, Wendy Kaminer shows us how pop-psychology and religious fervor vie with law and rationality in our courtrooms and in our minds. She doesnt offer up any ...
Greeks living in Germany who speak Italian because they run a pizzeria; Katka, whose mescalin cactus enables her to separate body and mind, with the result that they check in a psychiatric clinic together; Klaus who tries to broaden his vocabulary with the help of a radio programme, Russian for Children, and promptly ends up in jail on his first ...
Kaminer takes a skeptical look at the phenomenon of contagious irrationality that is manifesting itself, according to the author, as religious fundamentalism, new age spirituality and psychological trends. The book is an argument for the reinstitution of rationality, particularly in the spheres where the private becomes the public.
r contrarian views on everything from virginity to the First Amendment--never predictable, always brilliant. This first collection of her essays and criticism brings together her work from The Atlantic, The New York Times and The Village Voice, among other publications.
What happens when an organization with the express goal of defending individual rights and liberties starts silencing its own board? Lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer has intimate knowledge of such a conflict between individual conscience and group solidarity. In this concise and provocative book, she tells an inside story of the dramatic ...
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