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The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby (2008, Hardcover) 
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby (2008, Hardcover)

 
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby (2008, Hardcover)

Author: Susan Jacoby
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 2008-02-12
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375423745
ISBN-13: 9780375423741
Product ID: EPID60661478
Description: The spiritual descendant of Richard Hofstadter's ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE, Susan Jacoby's THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON explores the deplorable state of America's cultural education, and finds a disturbing proliferation of "j...
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Synopsis
The spiritual descendant of Richard Hofstadter's ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE, Susan Jacoby's THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON explores the deplorable state of America's cultural education, and finds a disturbing proliferation of "junk thought," a resistance to logical thinking, and a general undermining of the Enlightenment ideals upon which the country was founded.

Details
Publication Date:2008-02-12

Size
Length:356 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.8 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:24.0 oz

Publisher's Note
A scathing, witty indictment of American modern-day culture examines the current disdain for logic and evidence fostered by the mass media, religious fundamentalism, poor public education, a lack of fair-minded intellectuals, and a lazy, credulous public, condemning our addiction to infotainment, from TV to the Web, and assessing its repercussions for the country as a whole. 35,000 first printing.

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"Jacoby has assembled an erudite mix of personal anecdotes, cultural history and social commentary to decry America's retreat into 'junk thought'"
(12/17/2007)

"Ms. Jacoby doesn’t expect to revolutionize the nation’s educational system or cause millions of Americans to switch off AMERICAN IDOL and pick up Schopenhauer. But she would like to start a conversation about why the United States seems particularly vulnerable to such a virulent strain of anti-intellectualism."
(02/14/2008)

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