Good Intentions Gone Bad

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. Σελίδες: 352, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm