| #95821 in Books | Vintage | 2009-02-10 | 2009-02-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.01 x.80 x5.23l,.59 | File Name: 1400096383 | 384 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| All the more frighteningly relevant now|By Tim Lukeman|Susan Jacoby's smart & scathing study of American anti-intellectualism was starkly accurate when first published in 2009. The intervening years have only demonstrated & proven her thesis with dismaying urgency. If anything, the lack of actual knowledge in context, as well the lack of ability to assemble it into a larger, c|From Publishers Weekly|Inspired by Richard Hofstadter's trenchant 1963 cultural analysis Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Jacoby (Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism) has produced an engaging, updated and meticulously thought-out
A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreasonfocuses 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 t...
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