Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials - by Wendy Kaminer (Paperback)

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In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, social critic Wendy Kaminer illuminates the various ways in which society has come to value emotion over reason, faith over fact, and argues that declarations of intense belief have largely taken the place of rational discourse.
Author(s): Wendy Kaminer
288 Pages
Social Science, Sociology

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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.

Book Synopsis

In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, social critic Wendy Kaminer illuminates the various ways in which society has come to value emotion over reason, faith over fact, and argues that declarations of intense belief have largely taken the place of rational discourse. In a world in which "How do you feel," seems to be a more frequently asked question than "What do you know," Kaminer's examination of the rise of spiritualism, the mushrooming junk science, and the habitual merging of political and evangelical speech, blazes with relevance and incisive wit.

Probing the amusing and ominous implications of rampant credulity in our age, Kaminer raises important questions, and provides a thoughtful and eloquent perspective on the perils of present-day irrationalism.

Review Quotes

"[Kaminer] sends us a wise warning against the dangers to public freedoms in all overweening personal beliefs."--USA Today

"Wendy Kaminer is hard to place on the left-right political spectrum--and that is what imbues her work with originality. She relishes the clang of a good argument."--The Boston Globe

"Wonderful Wendy Kaminer! With wit and style and cold hard facts, she skewers contemporary credulity."--Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.54 Inches (H) x 5.58 Inches (W) x .71 Inches (D)

Weight: .85 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 288

Genre: Social Science

Sub-Genre: Sociology

Publisher: Vintage

Theme: General

Format: Paperback

Author: Wendy Kaminer

Language: English

Street Date: October 10, 2000

TCIN: 94496048

UPC: 9780679758860

Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-7020

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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