The age of American unreason, Susan Jacoby
Type
Label
The age of American unreason, Susan Jacoby
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The age of American unreason
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
140101081
Responsibility statement
Susan Jacoby
Summary
From the Publisher: A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason focuses on the convergence of social forces-usually treated as separate entities-that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of "junk thought" that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- 1: Way we live now: just us folks -- 2: Way we lived then: intellect and ignorance in a young nation -- 3: Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars -- 4: Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers -- 5: Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight -- 6: Blaming it on the sixties -- 7: Legacies: youth culture and celebrity culture -- 8: New old-time religion -- 9: Junk thought -- 10: Culture of distraction -- 11: Public life: defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Creator
Subject
- Nationalcharakter
- Reason + Social aspects
- Soziale Situation
- Popular culture -- United States
- Irrationalisme
- Social values
- Culture populaire
- Reason + Social Aspects -- United States
- Irrationalismus
- Verenigde Staten
- Social Psychology -- United States
- Civilization
- Social psychology -- United States
- Sociale waarden
- Conditions sociales
- Social Values -- United States
- Social values -- United States
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Mass media + Social aspects -- United States
- Popular Culture -- United States
- Psychology, Social -- United States
- National Characteristics, American
- Populaire cultuur
- Médias
- Popular culture
- Civilisations
- Social conditions
- United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
- United States + Civilization + 1945
- Psychologie sociale
- USA
- Hoger onderwijs
- Social psychology
- Valeurs sociales
- National characteristics, American
- Mass media + Social aspects
- United States + Social conditions + 1945
- Förenta staterna -- kultur- och samhällsliv -- 1945-
- United States
- Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Mass Media + Social Aspects -- United States
- Wetenschap
- Reason + Social aspects -- United States
- Since 1945
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- Nationalcharakter
- Reason + Social aspects
- Soziale Situation
- Popular culture -- United States
- Irrationalisme
- Social values
- Culture populaire
- Reason + Social Aspects -- United States
- Irrationalismus
- Verenigde Staten
- Social Psychology -- United States
- Civilization
- Social psychology -- United States
- Sociale waarden
- Conditions sociales
- Social Values -- United States
- Social values -- United States
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Mass media + Social aspects -- United States
- Popular Culture -- United States
- Psychology, Social -- United States
- National Characteristics, American
- Populaire cultuur
- Médias
- Popular culture
- Civilisations
- Social conditions
- United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
- United States + Civilization + 1945
- Psychologie sociale
- USA
- Hoger onderwijs
- Social psychology
- Valeurs sociales
- National characteristics, American
- Mass media + Social aspects
- United States + Social conditions + 1945
- Förenta staterna -- kultur- och samhällsliv -- 1945-
- United States
- Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Mass Media + Social Aspects -- United States
- Wetenschap
- Reason + Social aspects -- United States
- Since 1945
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