Tag Archives: Fanaticism

Lit, an RX for Fanaticism?

By Robin Bates | Published: November 14, 2011

Israeli author Amos Oz believes that literature can provide “a partial and limited immunity to fanaticism.”

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Silencing Inner Doubts through Fanaticism

By Robin Bates | Published: May 27, 2009

Continuing the discussion on how Gulliver’s Travels can help us handle the challenges of political disillusion, I turn to Book II, where Gulliver finds himself stranded in the land of the giant Brobdingnags. In Book I, as I noted in the last entry, Gulliver can remain aloof from human perversity—and when, in the end, it […]

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