Frank Furedi – Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter

In 2017, the Slovenian translation of the book Power of Reading by a Hungarian-Canadian academic and Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent was published by the publishing house UMco. As a sociologist, Frank Furedi explores issues related to learning, knowledge and fear. One of his particular interests, as he describes it, is paranoid parenting.

In Power of Reading, subtitled From Socrates to Twitter, Furedi examines reading and literacy through various historical periods, stopping in the present. Here, he argues, there is even a fear of reading in some circles – a concern that reading might actually be harmful.

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