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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Something has changed about the way people think. Not in human intelligence - the brain navigating the modern world is the same instrument that produced Newton, Socrates, and every verified breakthrough in human understanding. What has changed is the environment that brain must now navigate. And that environment was not designed with your cognitive health in mind.In 2011, Americans consumed five times more information every day than they did in 1986. The platforms delivering that information were not built to inform. They were built to capture attention and sell it to advertisers. Every design choice - the infinite scroll, the notification system, the algorithmic feed, the variable reward schedule - was optimized to maximize time on platform by keeping the brain in a state of fast emotional reaction rather than slow deliberate reasoning. The result is an information environment that exploits the same cognitive shortcuts evolution built into the human brain, at a scale and precision that no previous era of human history approached.The Thinking Crisis documents exactly how this happened and exactly what it is doing to collective reasoning. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, media criticism, and political theory, this book builds a complete structural account of the forces working against genuine independent thought in the modern world - from the attention economy's business model to the educational system's prioritization of memorization over inquiry, from the algorithmic amplification of outrage to the institutional interests that profit from a less critically engaged public.The philosophers saw this coming. Socrates died for insisting on the examined life. Neil Postman warned in 1985 that entertainment culture was dissolving the conditions for serious public argument. Hannah Arendt documented how the failure to think - the surrender of genuine reasoning to institutional role and received opinion - produces a specific and dangerous moral vulnerability. Marshall McLuhan spent his career establishing that the medium shapes the mind regardless of what the medium says. Their frameworks, combined with decades of verified research on attention, memory, cognitive bias, and the design of digital platforms, produce an account of the thinking crisis that is structural rather than moralistic - that locates the problem not in individual failure but in the architecture of systems designed to produce it.This is not a self-help book. It does not promise transformation through habit change. It is a documented philosophical and empirical examination of why thinking clearly has become harder, what that means, and what the examined life - practiced deliberately, against the consistent pressure of a world that profits from its abandonment - actually requires.The thinking crisis is real. Its causes are structural. And understanding those causes clearly is itself the first act of resistance.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. xiv, 328 pp. ; LCCN: 60-11266 ; dark green cloth with gold lettering, in a black and gray dustjacket ; ex-lib ; library stamps and marks ; spine label on dustjacket ; foxing of text ; grease pencil mark on front ep ; Contents: The nature of TAT stories as cognitive products : a psychoanalytic approach / Robert Holt -- A substitutive-defensive conception of apperceptive fantasy / Richard Lazarus -- Thematic apperception in a nationwide sample survey / Joseph Veroff -- The influence of drive aro usal and the conflict upon fantasy behavior / Seymour Feshbach -- Psycho-logic : a personality approach to patterns of thinking / Edwin Shneidman -- Stylistic variables in fantasy behavior : the ascription of affect states to social stimuli / Jerome Kagan -- The role of the stimulus in the manifestation of fantasy / Bernard Murstein -- A theoretical and research reappraisal of stimulus factors in the TAT / Douglas Kenny ; VG/VG. Book. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 616 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.