The age of American unreason in a culture of lies /
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 tha...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Second Vintage Books edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Pantheon Books in 2008"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xxviii, 364 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780525436522 0525436529 |