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(Ebook) The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby ISBN 9780375423741, 0375423745

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Authors:Susan Jacoby
Pages:387 pages.
Year:2008
Editon:1
Publisher:Pantheon
Language:english
File Size:5.44 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780375423741, 0375423745
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(Ebook) The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby ISBN 9780375423741, 0375423745

Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of ''junk thought.'' Disdain for logic and evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media, triumphalist religious fundamentalism, mediocre public education, a dearth of fair-minded public intellectuals on the right and the left, and, above all, a lazy and credulous public. Jacoby offers an unsparing indictment of the American addiction to infotainment--from television to the Web--and cites this toxic dependency as the major element distinguishing our current age of unreason from earlier outbreaks of American anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism. With reading on the decline and scientific and historical illiteracy on the rise, an increasingly ignorant public square is dominated by debased media-driven language and received opinion. At this critical political juncture, nothing could be more important than recognizing the ''overarching crisis of memory and knowledge'' described in this impassioned, tough-minded book, which challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flights from reason has cost us as individuals and as a nation.
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