《Bright-sided》(Barbara Ehrenreich)电子书网盘下载免费在线阅读链接: -35imkSiCWeBVZ3Esw 提取码: vfqc书名:Bright-sided作者:Barbara Ehrenreich豆瓣评分:0出版社:Metropolitan Books出版年份:2009-10-13页数:235内容简介:A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to Americans are a "positive" people - cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self- But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal 19th-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to "prosper" The medical profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health Academia has made room for new departments of "positive psychology" and the "science of " Nowhere, though, has bright-siding taken firmer root than within the business community, where, as Ehrenreich shows, the refusal even to consider negative outcomes - like mortgage defaults - contributed directly to the current economic With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking: On a personal level, it leads to self-blame and a morbid preoccupation with stamping out "negative" On a national level, it's brought us an era of irrational optimism resulting in This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best - poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and 作者简介:芭芭拉.艾伦瑞克Barbara Ehrenreich1941年生,洛克菲勒大学细胞生物学博士,《时代杂志》专栏作家,作品也常出现在《哈泼》、《国家》、《新共和》等重要刊物,是相当活跃的女性主义者与民主社会主义者。她出身於矿工家庭,就读大学时受到反战运动启蒙,於是放弃教职,投入写作与社会运动,特别关注社会底层。她至今已出版近二十本著作,包括纽约时报畅销榜作品《我在底层的生活》、《M型社会白领的新试炼》。