The Age of American Unreason
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Narrated by:
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Cassandra Campbell
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Written by:
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Susan Jacoby
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Disdain for logic and evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media, triumphalist religious fundamentalism, mediocre public education, a dearth of fair-minded public intellectuals on the right and the left, and, above all, a lazy and credulous public.
Jacoby offers an unsparing indictment of the American addiction to infotainment - from television to the Web - and cites this toxic dependency as the major element distinguishing our current age of unreason from earlier outbreaks of American anti-intellectualism and antirationalism.
With reading on the decline and scientific and historical illiteracy on the rise, an increasingly ignorant public square is dominated by debased media-driven language and received opinion.
At this critical political juncture, nothing could be more important than recognizing the "overarching crisis of memory and knowledge" described in this impassioned, tough-minded book, which challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flights from reason has cost us as individuals and as a nation.
©2008 Susan Jacoby (P)2008 TantorWhat the critics say
"Electric with fearless interpretation and fueled by passionate concern...brilliant, incendiary, and, one hopes, corrective." ( Booklist)
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- George Woodruff
- 2023-04-06
one of the best nonfiction books I've read recentl
the age of American unreason is one of the best books I have read the last year. it's been an insight into pervasive and intellectualism of the American psyche, and give me a historical and cultural appreciation of where this attitude that pervades americulture and Society comes from.
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