{"product_id":"9781771121576","title":"Critical Condition: Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity","description":"\u003cp\u003eShould we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, \u003ci\u003eCritical Condition\u003c\/i\u003e questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a “critical thinker.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eCritical Condition\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to action unlike any other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042614231280,"sku":"9781771121576","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771121576_p0.jpg?v=1769890607","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771121576","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}