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

Postman, Neil

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ISBN 10: 0375401296 ISBN 13: 9780375401299

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Riassunto

Explores the key humane ideas that emerged out of 18th-century philosophy and science to analyze their relevance to the modern world

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Informazioni sull?autore

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 <b>Amusing Ourselves to Death</b> and <b>Technopoly</b>. He lives in New York City.

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en 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 <b>Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century</b> 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Postman calls for a future connected to traditions that provide sane authority and meaningful purpose -- as opposed to an

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375401296
• ISBN 13: 9780375401299
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 213
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile