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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. A look at how technology and discord is holding back society and possibly harming future prosperity. New hardcover with fine DJ. 8vo. Index. 272 pp. From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure and private despair. Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. The Decadent Society explains what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases advancing--how the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemates, cultural exhaustion, and demographic decline creates a strange kind of "sustainable decadence," a civilizational languor that could endure for longer than we think. Ranging from our grounded space shuttles to our Silicon Valley villains, from our blandly recycled film and television--a new Star Wars saga, another Star Trek series, the fifth Terminator sequel--to the escapism we're furiously chasing through drug use and virtual reality, Ross Douthat argues that many of today's discontents and derangements reflect a sense of futility and disappointment--a feeling that the future was not what was promised, that the frontiers have all been closed, and that the paths forward lead only to the grave. In this environment we fear catastrophe, but in a certain way we also pine for it--because the alternative is to accept that we are permanently decadent: aging, comfortable and stuck, cut off from the past and no longer confident in the future, spurning both memory and ambition while we wait for some saving innovation or revelations, growing old unhappily together in the glowing light of tiny screens. Correcting both optimists who insist that we're just growing richer and happier with every passing year and pessimists who expect collapse any moment, Douthat provides an enlightening diagnosis of the modern condition--how we got here, how long our age of frustration might last, and how, whether in renaissance or catastrophe, our decadence might ultimately end. Codice articolo 1984
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. The Decadent Society explains what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases advancinghow the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemates, cultural exhaustion, and demographic decline creates a strange kind of sustainable decadence, a civilizational languor that could endure for longer than we think. Ranging from our grounded space shuttles to our Silicon Valley villains, from our blandly recycled film and televisiona new Star Wars saga, another Star Trek series, the fifth Terminator sequelto the escapism were furiously chasing through drug use and virtual reality, Ross Douthat argues that many of todays discontents and derangements reflect a sense of futility and disappointmenta feeling that the future was not what was promised, that the frontiers have all been closed, and that the paths forward lead only to the grave. In this environment we fear catastrophe, but in a certain way we also pine for itbecause the alternative is to accept that we are permanently decadent: aging, comfortable and stuck, cut off from the past and no longer confident in the future, spurning both memory and ambition while we wait for some saving innovation or revelations, growing old unhappily together in the glowing light of tiny screens. Correcting both optimists who insist that were just growing richer and happier with every passing year and pessimists who expect collapse any moment, Douthat provides an enlightening diagnosis of the modern conditionhow we got here, how long our age of frustration might last, and how, whether in renaissance or catastrophe, our decadence might ultimately end. Clever and stimulating . . . Informative and well balanced . . . [An] intriguing theological-political idea. Mark Lilla, The New York Times Book Review Well-timed . . . This is a young mans book. Douthat can see our sclerotic institutions clearly because his vision is not distorted by out-of-date memories from a more functional era. . . . Charming and persuasive." Peter Thiel for First Things A scintillating diagnosis of social dysfunctions . . . His analysis is full of shrewd insights couched in elegant, biting prose. . . . The result is a trenchant and stimulating take on latter-day discontents. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Ross Douthat is the rare pundit who has managed to keep his head through the ideological turbulence of recent times and his new book grows out of his characteristic equanimity and good sense. Damon Linker, The Week Douthats best book yet, a work of deep cultural analysis, elegantly written and offering provocative thoughts on almost every page. Its hard to think of a current book that is as insightful about the way we live now as is this one. Rod Dreher, The American Conservative A powerful portrait of how our age in human history, so superficially turbulent, is actually defined by stagnation, repetition, deadlocks, and decay. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781476785240
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