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050 00 $aE169.Z83$bJ33 2008
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100 1 $aJacoby, Susan,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018743
245 14 $aThe age of American unreason /$cSusan Jacoby.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axx, 356 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Way We Live Now: Just Us Folks --$g2.$tThe Way We Lived Then: Intellect and Ignorance in a Young Nation --$g3.$tSocial Pseudoscience in the Morning of America's Culture Wars --$g4.$tReds, Pinkos, Fellow Travelers --$g5.$tMiddlebrow Culture from Noon to Twilight --$g6.$tBlaming It on the Sixties --$g7.$tLegacies: Youth Culture and Celebrity Culture --$g8.$tThe New Old-Time Religion --$g9.$tJunk Thought --$g10.$tThe Culture of Distraction --$g11.$tPublic Life: Defining Dumbness Downward --$tConclusion: Cultural Conservation.
520 1 $a"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. She surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudointellectual 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."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139945
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518
650 0 $aMass media$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107508
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140482
650 0 $aReason$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSocial values$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111575
650 0 $aSocial psychology$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010112125
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089950
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007021562.html
852 00 $bglx$hE169.Z83$iJ33 2008
852 00 $bbar$hE169.Z83$iJ33 2008