{"product_id":"critical-condition-replacing-critical-thinking-with-creativity-9781771121576","title":"Critical Condition: Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShould we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a \"critical thinker.\" The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates' death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical \"attack\" on a perceived opponent. From the Roman militarization of debate to the medieval Church's use of defence as a means of forcing confession and submission, the early phases of critical thinking were bound up in a type of attack that Finn suggests does not best serve intellectual inquiry. Recent developments have seen critical thinking become an ideology rather than a critical practice, with levels of debate devolving to the point where most debate becomes ad hominem. Far from arguing that we abandon critical inquiry, the author suggests that we emphasize a more open, loving system of engagement that is not only less inherently violent but also more robust when dealing with vastly more complex networks of information. This book challenges long-held beliefs about the benefits of critical thinking, which is shown to be far too linear to deal with the twenty-first century world. Critical Condition is a call to action unlike any other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents for Critical Condition: Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity by Patrick Finn Acknowledgements Preface: An Invitation Chapter 1 A Foolish Question: Isn't It Time We Replaced Critical Thinking? Chapter 2 The Baby and the Bathwater: The Birth of Critical Thinking Chapter 3 A Hitch or Two: Polemic, Violence, and the Case for Critical Thinking Chapter 4 We Can't Go On Together (with Suspicious Minds) Chapter 5 An Immodest Proposal: Let's Replace Critical Thinking with Creative, Loving, Open-Source Thought Chapter 6 âSure, It Works in Practice, but Will It Work in Theory?â Chapter 7 Conclusion: An Open Invitation-Some Final Ideas and Questions Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53190350143831,"sku":"9781771121576","price":17.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-condition-replacing-critical-thinking-with-creativity-9781771121576","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}