書名 : The age of American unreason in a culture of lies /
紀錄類型 : 書目-語言資料,印刷品: 單行本
正題名[資料類型標示]/作者 : The age of American unreason in a culture of lies /Susan Jacoby.
作者 : Jacoby, Susan,
版本項 : New updated edition.
出版者 : New York :Vintage Books,2018.
面頁冊數 : xxviii, 364 p. ;21 cm.
附註 : "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Pantheon Books....in 2008"--Title page verso.
內容註 : Introduction -- 1: Way we live now: just us folks -- 2: Way we lived then: intellect and ignorance in a young nation -- 3: Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars -- 4: Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers -- 5: Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight -- 6: Blaming it on the sixties -- 7: Legacies: youth culture and celebrity culture -- 8: New old-time religion -- 9: Junk thought -- 10: Culture of distraction -- 11: Public life: defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
標題 : Social values
標題 : United States
ISBN : 9780525436522 (pbk.) :
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500 $a"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Pantheon Books....in 2008"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 1: Way we live now: just us folks -- 2: Way we lived then: intellect and ignorance in a young nation -- 3: Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars -- 4: Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers -- 5: Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight -- 6: Blaming it on the sixties -- 7: Legacies: youth culture and celebrity culture -- 8: New old-time religion -- 9: Junk thought -- 10: Culture of distraction -- 11: Public life: defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
520 $aFrom 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 northe left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of "junk thought" that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.
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