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Article: Reawakening the imagination.(Book Review)
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- Catholic New Times
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- October 10, 2004
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The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White San Francisco, Calif.: HarperSanFrancisco. Paperback. 2004, 203 pp.
Discussing Curtis White's book The Middle Mind will not make you popular at cocktail parties. But it's an indispensable book for those who've grown weary of "unquestioned mediocrity" in our culture.
White insists we need to revive our social imagination. By that he doesn't mean a "romantic imagination of genius." Instead he's interested in the imagination as a social force that allows for both critique and re-invention.
To confront "performative logic" and the impetus to efficiency and domination in our ...