Coddling of the American Mind, The: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 6th Jun '19
£10.99
Description
The New York Times bestsellerFinancial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year’Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it’ Financial TimesHave good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of modern identity politics and hypersensitivity?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.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.
Additional information
Weight | 0.258 kg |
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Dimensions | 20 × 129 × 198 mm |
Page Count | 352 |