{"product_id":"ideal-minds-9781501764639","title":"Ideal Minds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing the 1960s, that decade''s focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics.\u003c\/b\u003e The mind''s powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, seventies cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. In \u003ci\u003eIdeal Minds\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Trask presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the seventies intellectual landscape who share a commitment to what he calls neo-idealism as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a heterodox intellectual and literary history of the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eIdeal Minds\u003c\/i\u003e mixes ideas from cognitive science, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, deep ecology, political theory, science fiction, neoclassical ec\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[H]is reevaluation of the 1970s' intellectual and cultural currents is remarkable.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA convincing portrait of the zeitgeist. Trask's reevaluation of the 1970's intellectual and cultural currents is remarkable—Highly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: From Consciousness-Raising to Neo-idealism\u003cbr\u003e 1. Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Meritocracy\u003cbr\u003e 2. Radical Ecology's Mindfulness\u003cbr\u003e 3. That Seventies Cult\u003cbr\u003e 4. Millennial America and the World to Come\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: The Marketization of Everything\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372288811351,"sku":"9781501764639","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501764639.jpg?v=1730162642","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ideal-minds-9781501764639","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}