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The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, New York : Pantheon Books, (c)2008.Description: xx, 356 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780375423741
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E169.J17.A346 2008
  • E169
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Contents:
The 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 -- The culture of distraction -- Public life: defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation.
Subject: 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. ~ From the Publisher
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The way we live now: just us folks -- The 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 -- The culture of distraction -- Public life: defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation.

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. ~ From the Publisher

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