The Coddling of the American Mind

How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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Beschreibung

<p><b><i>The New York Times</i> bestseller</b></p><p><b><i>Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman</i> Books of the Year</b></p><p><b>'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br>Have good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of modern identity politics and hypersensitivity?</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780141986302

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 126 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)