Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Age of American Unreason picks up where Richard Hofstadter left off. With analytic verve and deep historical knowledge, Susan Jacoby documents the dumbing down of our culture like a maestro. make no mistake about it, this is an important book. Douglas Brinkley, residential historian and author of The Great Deluge. This is one of the most eye-opening books I've read in a long time. Jacoby charts the intellectual and cultural currents that have characterized the United States since its founding and explains just how and why Americans have recently.
Susan Jacoby (/dʒəˈkoʊbi/; born June 4, 1945) is an American author. Her 2008 book about American, The Age of American Unreason, was a New York Times best seller. She is an atheist and a secularist. Jacoby graduated from Michigan State University in 1965. She lives in New York City and is program director of the New York branch of the Center for Inquiry.
In it, Jacoby alerted us to an America already sick with "a powerful mutant .
In it, Jacoby alerted us to an America already sick with "a powerful mutant strain of intertwined ignorance, anti-rationalism and. Now, a little more than ten years later, Donald Trump is the President of the United States, and-if the economy holds-may be elected for his second term. The first section of the book deals primarily with the nineteenth century and most specifically how the social Darwinists (with their early form of "junk thought") alienated the American public from intellectuals and the habit of critical thinking.
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In American Unreason Ms. Jacoby, the author of earlier books like Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, proposes to anatomize this dismaying phenomenon, while situating it in historical context.
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon-one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of ''junk thought.
SUSAN JACOBY is the author of eleven previous books, including Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism and Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
SUSAN JACOBY is the author of eleven previous books, including Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism and Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion. Her articles have appeared frequently in the op-ed pages of The New York Times and in forums that include The American Prospect, Dissent,and The Daily Beast. She lives in New York City. For more information, visit ww. usanjacoby. Библиографические данные. The Age of American Unreason. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008.
SUSAN JACOBY is the author of eleven previous books, including Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism and .
SUSAN JACOBY is the author of eleven previous books, including Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism and Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion. Her articles have appeared frequently in the op-ed pages of The New York Times and in forum. ore about Susan Jacoby. The Age of American Unreason picks up where Richard Hofstadter left off.
NPR coverage of The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more. An indictment of modern American 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. Read an excerpt of this book.
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