The DIM Hypothesis, Leonard Peikoff
The DIM Hypothesis, Leonard Peikoff
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The DIM Hypothesis
Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out

Author: Leonard Peikoff

Narrator: Robin Field

Unabridged: 17 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2014

Synopsis

In his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history.In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments by a scientific theory, separate laws into a constitution, or single events into a story. The first method, in which data is integrated through rational means, he calls Integration. The second, which employs nonrational means, he calls Misintegration. The third is Disintegration—which is nihilism, the desire to tear things apart.In The DIM Hypothesis Peikoff demonstrates the power of these three methods in shaping the West by using the categories to examine the culturally representative fields of literature, physics, education, and politics. His analysis illustrates how the historical trends in each field have been dominated by one of these three categories, not only today but during the whole progression of Western culture from its beginning in ancient Greece.Extrapolating from the historical pattern he identifies, Peikoff concludes by explaining why the lights of the West are going out—and predicts the most likely future for the United States.

About Leonard Peikoff

Leonard Peikoff is universally recognized as the preeminent Rand scholar writing today. He worked closely with Ayn Rand for thirty years and was designated by her as heir to her estate. He has taught philosophy at Hunter College, Long Island University, and New York University. Peikoff for many years lectured on Rand’s philosophy throughout the country. He lives in Southern California.

About Robin Field

Robin Field is the AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator of numerous audiobooks, as well as an award-winning actor, singer, writer, and lyricist whose career has spanned six decades. He has starred on and off Broadway, headlined at Carnegie Hall, authored numerous musical reviews, and hosted or performed on a number of television and radio programs over the years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on December 15, 2013

Next to Atlas Shrugged, the greatest book ever written that will not be understood by its readers until they live through it, and not even then. To be saved for future historians, assuming there are any left at some point when it will matter.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 12, 2016

An advanced philosophical presentation of Leonard Peikoff’s theory for cultural analysis. The theory holds that there are three primary modes of cognitive integration (Disintegration, Integration, and Misintegration—DIM), closely associated with the Big Three philosophers (Kant, Aristotle, Plato). F......more

Goodreads review by Tal on January 12, 2013

"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." --George Santayana. But remembering without understanding is useless. What the DIM hypothesis granted me is a key to understanding the link between ideas and their consequent actions, with which I can unlock the lessons of history. The DIM hypothesi......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on July 07, 2015

In The DIM Hypothesis, Leonard Peikoff claims a culture’s predominant method of integrating crucial cultural information in the areas of science, ethics, religion, esthetics, etc., ultimately determines its history. The integration he has in mind is in terms of answers to the two fundamental questio......more

Goodreads review by Russ on October 31, 2012

In the DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out, Dr. Leonard Peikoff puts forth his theory of how cultural change occurs, and, by illuminating the cause(s) of such change throughout the history of Western civilization, he finishes by giving a grave portrait of this country's future.......more

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