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Building a Bridge To the 18th Century:How the Past Can Improve Our Future
[Paperback - 2000]
neil postman
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Category: Sociology
Sub-category: Sociology
Additional Category: Ancient History
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780375701276 | Pages: 224
Shipping Weight: .187 | Dimensions: 5.16 x .46 x 8 inches

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In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world.

Postman shows us how to reclaim that balance between mind and machine in a dazzling celebration of the accomplishments of the Enlightenment-from Jefferson's representative democracy to Locke's deductive reasoning to Rousseau's demand that the care and edification of children be considered an investment in our collective future. Here, too, is the bold assertion that Truth is invulnerable to fashion or the passing of time. Provocative and brilliantly argued, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century illuminates a navigable path through the Information Age-a byway whose signposts, it turns out, were there all along.

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Neil Postman, an important American educator, media theorist and cultural critic was probably best known for his popular 1985 book,Amusing Ourselves to Death. For more than four decades he was associated with New York University, where he created and led the Media Ecology program.He is the author of more than thirty significant books on education, media criticism, and cultural change including Teaching as a Subversive Activity, The Disappearance of Childhood, Technopoly, andBuilding a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century.Amusing Ourselves to Death(1985), a historical narrative which warns of a decline in the ability of our mass communications media to share serious ideas. Since television images replace the written word, Postman argues that television confounds serious issues by demeaning and undermining political discourse and by turning real, complex issues into superficial images, less about ideas and thoughts and more about entertainment. He also argues that television is not an effective way of providing education, as it provides only top-down information transfer, rather than the interaction that he believes is necessary to maximize learning. He refers to the relationship between information and human response as the Information-action ratio.

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