Building a bridge to the 18th century

how the past can improve our future

1st ed.
Building a bridge to the 18th century
Neil Postman, Neil Postman
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Building a bridge to the 18th century

how the past can improve our future

1st ed.

"In Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century Neil Postman 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."--BOOK JACKET.

"He turns our attention to Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, 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."--BOOK JACKET.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
213

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Building a bridge to the 18th century: how the past can improve our future
2000, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

ch. 1.
Bridge to the 18th century -- -- ch. 2.
Progress -- -- ch. 3.
Technology -- -- ch. 4.
Language -- -- ch. 5.
Information -- -- ch. 6.
Narratives -- -- ch. 7.
Children -- -- ch. 8.
Democracy -- -- ch. 9.
Education.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-203) and index.

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Building a bridge to the eighteenth century

Classifications

Library of Congress
CB430 .P637 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
213 p. ;
Number of pages
213

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24962885M
ISBN 10
0965076056, 0375401296
ISBN 13
9780375401299
LCCN
99018923
OCLC/WorldCat
50845991, 40862083

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