Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century - Hardcover

Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future.

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. Auflage: 1. 213 p. Der Schutzumschlag ist papierbedingt leicht gebräunt und, so wie der Vorsatz, minimal berieben. Sonst aber ein gutes und saubres Exemplar/ The dust jacket is paper lightly browned and, like the endpapers, minimally rubbed. But otherwise a good and clean copy. - At a time when we are reexamining our values, reeling from the pace of change, witnessing the clash between good instincts and "pragmatism," dealing with the angst of a new millennium, Neil Postman, one of our most distinguished observers of contemporary society, provides for us a source of guidance and inspiration. In Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century he revisits the Enlightenment, that great flowering of ideas that provided a humane direction for the future ideas that formed our nation and that we would do well to embrace anew. He turns our attention to Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Edward Gibbon, Adam $mith, Thomas Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin, and to their then-radical thinking about inductive science, religious and political freedom, popular education, rational commerce, the nation-state, progress, and happiness. Postman calls for a future connected to traditions that provide sane authority and meaningful purpose as opposed to an overreliance on technology and an increasing disregard for the lessons of history. And he argues passionately for specific new guidelines in the education of our children, with renewed emphasis on developing the intellect as successfully as we are developing a computer-driven world. Witty, provocative, and brilliantly reasoned, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century is Neil Postman s most radical, and most commonsensi- cal, book yet. Neil Postman is University Professor, Paulette Goddard Chair of Media Ecology, and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Among his twenty books are Amusing Ourselves to Death and Technopoly. He lives in New York City. CONTENT: Chapter One: A Bridge to the 18th Century Chapter Two: Progress Chapter Three: Technology Chapter Four: Language Chapter Five: Information Chapter Six: Narratives Chapter Seven: Children Chapter Eight: Democracy Chapter Nine: Education Appendix I: Letter from Lord Byron to Lord Holland, February 25, 1812 Appendix II: Comments on the Nature of Language by People Who Never Heard of Jacques Derrida Appendix III: On the Origin of Childhood and Why It Is Disappearing. ISBN 9780375401299 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1350. Artikel-Nr. 1221957

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