A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics,
economics, religion, and literature-and what can be done to fight
it Polarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But
few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set
the stage for this crisis: namely, a rise in styles of thought,
across a range of fields, that literary scholar Gary Saul Morson
and economist Morton Schapiro call "fundamentalist." In Minds Wide
Shut, Morson and Schapiro examine how rigid adherence to
ideological thinking has altered politics, economics, religion, and
literature in ways that are mutually reinforcing and antithetical
to the open-mindedness and readiness to compromise that animate
democracy. In response, they propose alternatives that would again
make serious dialogue possible. Fundamentalist thinking, Morson and
Schapiro argue, is not limited to any one camp. It flourishes
across the political spectrum, giving rise to dueling monologues of
shouting and abuse between those who are certain that they can't be
wrong, that truth and justice are all on their side, and that there
is nothing to learn from their opponents, who must be evil or
deluded. But things don't have to be this way. Drawing on thinkers
and writers from across the humanities and social sciences, Morson
and Schapiro show how we might begin to return to meaningful
dialogue through case-based reasoning, objective analyses, lessons
drawn from literature, and more. The result is a powerful
invitation to leave behind simplification, rigidity, and
extremism-and to move toward a future of greater open-mindedness,
moderation, and, perhaps, even wisdom.
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