Hardcover, 356 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2008 by Pantheon Books.
The age of American unreason
by Susan Jacoby
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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.
Subjects
- Mass Communication Media And Society
- Social Psychology
- Philosophy
- History - U.S.
- Media Studies
- Popular Culture - General
- United States - General
- History / United States / General
- History & Surveys - General
- Mass media
- Popular culture
- Reason
- Social aspects
- United States