The Coddling of the American Mind von Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 352 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Verlag: Penguin Books UKPenguin
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780141986302

Excellent . . . their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it Edward Luce Financial Times

The New York Timesbestseller<br><br>Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New StatesmanBooks of the Year<br><br>'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it'Financial Times<br><br>Have good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of modern identity politics and hypersensitivity?<br><br>In this book, free speech campaigner Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt investigate a new cultural phenomenon of"safetyism", beginning on American college campuses in 2014 and spreading throughout academic institutions in the English-speaking world.<br><br>Looking at the consequences of paranoid parenting, the increase in anxiety and depression amongst students and the rise of new ideas about justice, Lukianoff and Haidt argue that well-intended but misguided attempts to protect young people are damaging their development and mental health, the functioning of educational systems and even democracy itself.

4GBJonathan Haidtis a social psychologist and the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is the author ofThe Righteous Mindand co-author ofThe Coddling of the American Mind.Greg Lukianoffis a lawyer, First Amendment expert and President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He is the co-author ofThe Coddling of the American Mindand the author ofUnlearning LibertyandFreedom From Speech.

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