10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help
Autor Benjamin Wikeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 apr 2008
These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive--in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In his scintillating new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (And 5 Others That Didn't Help), he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. In this witty, learned, and provocative exposé, you'll learn:
* Why Machiavelli's The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand)
* How Descartes' Discourse on Method "proved" God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own ego
* How Hobbes' Leviathan led to the belief that we have a "right" to whatever we want
* Why Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious book ever written
* How Darwin's The Descent of Man proves he intended "survival of the fittest" to be applied to human society
* How Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the "will to power"
* How Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of "spiritualized Darwinism" that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism
* How the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa turned out to be a creation of her own sexual confusions and aspirations
* Why Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was simply autobiography masquerading as science
Witty, shocking, and instructive, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World offers a quick education on the worst ideas in human history--and how we can avoid them in the future.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781596980556
ISBN-10: 1596980559
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Regnery Publishing Inc
Colecția Regnery Publishing
ISBN-10: 1596980559
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Regnery Publishing Inc
Colecția Regnery Publishing
Notă biografică
Benjamin
Wiker,
a
husband
and
the
father
of
seven
children,
holds
a
Ph.D.
in
theological
ethics
from
Vanderbilt
University.
He
has
taught
at
Marquette
University,
St.
Mary’s
University,
and
Thomas
Aquinas
College
and
is
now
a
professor
of
political
science
and
the
director
of
human
life
studies
at
Franciscan
University
in
Steubenville,
Ohio.
His
twelve
books
include10
Books
Every
Conservative
Must
Read:
Plus
Four
Not
to
Miss
and
One
Impostor,The
Reformation
500
Years
Later:
12
Things
You
Need
to
Know,
andWorshipping
the
State:
How
Liberalism
Became
Our
State
Religion.