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Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child

Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child


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How to raise children who can sit with a good book and read? Who are moved by beauty? Who delight in innocence? Who have no compulsions – who don’t have to buy the latest this or that vanity? Who are not bound to the instant urge, wherever it may be found? Thoughtful parents everywhere ask such questions but struggle to find answers. But now, in this eagerly anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed book Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Anthony Esolen shows the way. Although freedom has become a byword of our age, Esolen shows why the common understanding of freedom – as a permission slip to do as you please – is narrow, misleading…and dangerous. He draws on great thinkers of the Western tradition, from Aristotle and Cicero to Dante and Shakespeare to John Adams and C.S. Lewis, to remind us what human freedom truly means. Life Under Compulsion shows why our children are not free at all but in fact are becoming slaves to compulsions. Some compulsions come from without: government mandates that determine what children are taught, and even what they can eat in school. Others come from within: the itches that must be scratched, the passions by which children (like the rest of us) can be mastered. Common Core, smartphones, video games, sex ed, travel teams, Twitter, politicians, popular music, advertising, a world with more genders than there are flavours of ice cream – these and many other aspects of contemporary life come under Esolen’s sweeping gaze in Life Under Compulsion. This elegantly written book restores lost wisdom about education, parenting, literature, music, art, philosophy, and leisure. It also restates the importance of concepts so often dismissed today: truth, beauty, goodness, love, faith, and virtue. But above all else, it reminds us of a fundamental truth: that a child is a human being. Countercultural in the best sense of term, Life Under Compulsion is an indispensable guide for any parent who wants to help a child remove the shackles and enjoy a truly free, and full, life.

About the Author :
Anthony Esolen is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization and Ironies of Faith and the translator and editor of the celebrated three-volume Modern Library edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy. He is a professor of English at Providence College and a senior editor of Touchstone magazine. Esolen lives in Rhode Island, USA with his family.

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"A lament for what we have lost and are losing: honor, humility, noneroticized love, truth, and faith." --Conversations on Philanthropy "This book is essential reading for parents, educators, and anyone who is concerned to rescue children from the tedi "Esolen shows how under the spell of that conjuring word freedom we wrap children in cords of bondage. His Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child was a wonderful book; this is a profound one." --J. Budziszewski, University of Texas, author of On the Meaning of Sex "Life Under Compulsion is for anyone who wants to understand how thoroughly our contemporary culture has weakened and warped our fundamental humanity. This is at once a deeply entertaining and a seriously impressive book. Dare to approach it with an open mind, and you will not put it down unchanged." --CatholicCulture.org "The book is full of gems. . . . Esolen's case for the human imagination is extraordinarily important." --Catholic Culture "Nonstop wit, energetic writing, fresh insight, and abundant wisdom about how to shape a good life for your children, and maybe e "Witty, provocative, and insightful. Parents will feel empowered and encouraged by Esolen's uncommon sense." --Michael Medved, nationally syndicated talk radio host "This book made me want to jump up (very high) and cheer, or run around (very far) and Praise for Anthony Esolen's Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child "Esolen signals with this book his presence in the top rank of authors of cultural criticism, following in the footsteps of Richard Weaver, Walker Percy, Russell Kirk, John


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781610170949
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: ISI Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1610170946
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 548 gr


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