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Author:

Jacoby, Susan, 1945-

Title:

The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby.

Publisher:

Pantheon Books,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xx, 356 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

United States--Civilization--1945-
United States--Social conditions--1945-
Mass media--Social aspects--United States.
Popular culture--United States.
Reason--Social aspects--United States.
Social values--United States.
Social psychology--United States.
National characteristics, American.
Populaire cultuur.
Sociale waarden.
Irrationalisme
Wetenschap.
Hoger onderwijs.
Verenigde Staten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Way we live now: just us folks -- Way we lived then: intellect and ignorance in a young nation -- Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars -- Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers -- Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight -- Blaming it on the sixties -- Legacies: youth culture and celebrity culture -- New old-time religion -- Junk thought -- Culture of distraction -- Public life: defining dumbness downward -- Cultural conservation.

Summary:

From the Publisher: A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason focuses on the convergence of social forces-usually treated as separate entities-that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of "junk thought" that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.

ISBN:

0375423745
9780375423741

OCLC:

(OCoLC)140101081

LCCN:

2007021562

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