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“Esolen [stands] in the top rank of authors of cultural criticism.” —American Spectator
How do you raise a child who can sit with a good book and read? Who is moved by beauty? Who doesn’t have to buy the latest this or that vanity? Who is not bound to the instant urge, wherever it may be found?
As a parent, you’ve probably asked these questions. And now Anthony Esolen provides the answers in this wise new book, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child.
Esolen reveals that our children are becoming slaves to compulsions. Some compulsions come from without: government mandates that determine what children are taught, how they 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 flavors 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. 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 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 the term, Life Under Compulsionis an indispensable guide for any parent who wants to help a child remove the shackles and enjoy a truly free, and full, life.
Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child, by Mr. Anthony Esolen - Amazon Sales Rank: #128225 in Books
- Brand: Esolen, Anthony
- Published on: 2015-05-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child, by Mr. Anthony Esolen Review “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.orgPraise 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 Senior, Christopher Lasch, and Roger Scruton.” —American Spectator “Esolen’s skewering of contemporary culture with all of its political correctness and shallow moral gestures is devastating.” —Washington Times“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 shout warnings. . . . A worthy successor to C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man.” —Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy, Boston College“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 even yourself.” —Robert Royal, president of the Faith & Reason Institute“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 tedious and vacuous thing childhood has become.” —Education Reporter
About the Author Anthony Esolen is the author of several books, including Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization, and Ironies of Faith. He is also the translator and editor of the celebrated three-volume Modern Library edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy. A professor of English at Providence College and a senior editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, Esolen lives in Rhode Island with his family.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Using this Book as a Spine for High School Homeschool By Amazon Customer I don’t know if Mr. Esolen expected his book to be used this way, but it will serve nicely as our “spine”. We could go on a hundred rabbit trails just with this one book, so it’s enough for a year or two of high school. There are lessons here in history, religion, civics, psychology and sociology, and of course language and literature. Just about the only thing we’ll need to add is math. More here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/andthesethygifts/2015/05/anthony-esolens-life-under-compulsion/
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Misnamed Book By The Bleeding Pelican Here are the factors that make this a three star book. (3 stars means "I liked it", not "really liked it" or "loved it"...)- The writing is excellent. Esolen has a fluid command of the English language and uses many juicy, excellent analogies to hammer home his point. I enjoyed reading his words very much.- The book is mistitled and this is my primary problem with it. One thinks it's a practical manual on how to raise children rich in authentic humanity-- only in reverse psychology Screwtape Letters style. It is not. The book can keep its main title but needs a new subtitle like "a diatribe on how works of Western literature are far more rich in virtue and humanity than today's culture". Or maybe "how studying The Great Books will make us realize how far our society has degraded." The book does not offer practical solutions other than what is obvious: homeschool your children, limit media and have a rich home library. But even that has to be inferred because each chapter is only a listing of what is WRONG with modern American culture.- This book won't add anything to those who are already convinced of its premise... which is the exact audience to which Esolen seems to write. I.e., if you have read Dante, Homer, Shakespeare, etc., not only will you be able to fully appreciate all his references to these writers (which, I kid not, are at least once every two pages), but you will have been steeped in a culture of higher level thinking that makes it almost certain that you already value the values he's preaching on here.Chapter discussions include but are not limited to: mass education (incl. Common Core), utilitarian overworking, lack of critical thinking, predominance of lust over love, "tolerance", mob mentality, and the disintegration of the family.So, most intelligent people will enjoy reading this book but that's only if they are already intelligent and enjoy getting fired up about previously held convictions. At best, such people might learn new ways to nuance and articulate these convictions by reading this book.For the masses, like another reviewer stated, the ones who need to read this book, won't be able to.Bottom line: as one who is already convicted on the degradation of culture, I was looking (and misled by the title) for something practical to accompany the rhetoric. Instead, I was treated to a well-written sermon designed for the choir with lots and lots of external references to great literature. 3 stars.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful. For Human Beings, only. By Time To Choose Everywhere the masses are scurrying about like rats in a maze. Yet, most have no clue as to why they are rushing so confidently forward, nor where they are headed to. In Life Under Compulsion, Anthony Esolen, unfolds, exposes and dissects the absurd transformation of what used to be human beings, to mere robotized masses. The process of his revelation itself, is a teaching tool to most who, under the Fed Led Ed of educators Dewey and Wilson, coupled with the Behavioral Conditioning of Pavlov and Skinner, have truly been deprived of both parental transmission of Truth and educational knowledge for reasoning spiritual human beings.Every person ought to read this book. The challenge is that most are not able to do so. The Architects of The Abolition of Man have been quite successful in their endeavors to separate Man from His Creator, God, and from the parents who are responsible for their heirs intellectual, emotional, physical and most of all spiritual development. Get a dozen of these books and share them with your Lyceum as we counter the ergonomes and again develop human beings created in the image of God.
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