The Counterfeit Wisdom of Shallow Minds

The Author: Lawrence L. Habermehl is an associate professor of philosophy at American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Phillips University (Oklahoma) and Union Theological Seminary (New York City), and received his Ph.D. from Boston University. Dr. Habermehl is the author/editor of one of the first college-level texts to coordinate ethical theory and current moral dilemmas, Morality in the Modern World: Ethical Dimensions of Contemporary Human Problems..

"This book represents some of the most careful scholarship that is likely to be found on the popular persons and ideas covered. Not a single controversial claim is left undocumented. The force of the whole analysis of each topic is quite convincing and, because of the documentation, virtually uncontrovertible. The book may even encourage other scholars to take on those in our culture whose work cries out for such precise analysis." (T. Edward Damer, Emory and Henry College)
"Professor Habermehl has achieved a brilliant 'tour de force' that is a must-read for every discerning person exasperated with the burgeoning superficiality of our culture - popular, political, & religious... The most original & useful contribution of this book... is in Habermehl's critique of some leading offenders of the 1980s', in which prodigious & painstaking research, impeccable logic, extensive evidence, penetrating argumentation, fresh insight, innovative analogization, articulate and readable prose systematically dismantle the fallacious and sometimes fraudulent reasoning of the subjects chosen for their popular appeal to large audiences of the general public... This incisive critique remains relevant for today and tomorrow as a scalpel (not a hammer) in the hands of those who are 'lovers of wisdom'." (Robert A. Dyal, Southwest Texas State University)