Tag: Ignorance

Free Download Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know by Mark Lilla
English | December 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0374174350 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 0.87 MB
"Mark Lilla is always a challenging, fascinating mind – alert to all the power, paradox, and dangers of ignorance." -Rory Stewart, author of Politics On the Edge and co-host of The Rest Is Politics

Free Download The Problem with Stupid: Ignorance, Intellectuals, Post-truth and Resistance by Tom Grimwood
English | June 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1803410760 | 168 pages | PDF | 1.99 Mb
In the past two decades, the rise of a particular commonplace in public debate has emerged on both the Left and the Right: the threat of ‘the stupid.’ Far from a throwaway ad hominem, stupidity has become a key trope for both explaining and criticising the election results, culture wars and the advances of post-truth. But how do we negotiate ‘the stupid’ in a meaningful way? Does critique and resistance depend on the mobilisation of intellect, and what does the prevalence of stupidity as a commonplace suggest about the risks of such a mobilisation? What are the resources to work through it outside of condemnation or insult? Taking ‘the stupid’ as a primary figure in today’s cultural rhetoric, Tom Grimwood uses internet memes, film and media, alongside philosophical inquiry, to present a series of interventions in the assumptions of what makes ‘the stupid’ dangerous and how to move beyond these assumptions into effective resistance.

Free Download The End of Ignorance: Multiplying Our Human Potential by John Mighton
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0676979629 | 320 Pages | PDF | 8.6 MB
The End of Ignorance conceives of a world in which no child is left behind – a world based on the assumption that each child has the potential to be successful in every subject. John Mighton argues that by recognizing the barriers that we have experienced in our own educational development, by identifying the moment that we became disenchanted with a certain subject and forever closed ourselves off to it, we will be able to eliminate these same barriers from standing in the way of our children.