Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. No markings or inscriptions. Text clean. Binding tight and square. Spine uncreased.

Synopsis

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.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Endless Shores Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 103944
Title: The Age of American Unreason
Author: Susan Jacoby
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good +
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 1400096383
ISBN 13: 9781400096381
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2009
Bookseller catalogs: Current Events;

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