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- Book Title
- Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy
- Publication Name
- Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy : The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century
- Title
- Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy
- Subtitle
- The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 027595661X
- EAN
- 9780275956615
- ISBN
- 9780275956615
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Genre
- Law & Politics
- Release Date
- 20/08/1996
- Release Year
- 1996
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Our society's institutional infrastructures--our democratic political system, economic structures, legal practices, and educational establishment--were all created as intellectual outgrowths of the Enlightenment. All our cultural institutions are based on the intellectual idea that an enlightened citizenry could govern its affairs with reason and responsibility. In the late 20th century, however, we are witnessing the disintegration of much of our cultural heritage. Wood argues that this is due to our evolution into a Upost-intellectual society R--a society characterized by a loss of critical thinking, the substitution of information for knowledge, mediated reality, increasing illiteracy, loss of privacy, specialization, psychological isolation, hyper-urbanization, moral anarchy, and political debilitation. These post-intellectual realities are all triggered by three underlying determinants: the failure of linear growth and expansion to sustain our economic system; the runaway information overload; and technological determinism. Wood presents a new and innovative social theory, challenging readers to analyze all our post-intellectual cultural malaise in terms of these three fundamental determinants.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
027595661x
ISBN-13
9780275956615
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038264277
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy : The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Hn90
Reviews
"Provocative social-cultural theory; jeremiad; prophecy of an already arrived technocratic dystopia. This book by a senior media scholar is all these. The human condition has evolved from a cyclical oral tradition to a linear culture of written intellectualism, but events of the last 35 years indicate descent into a Web culture of postintellectualism in which electronic media are central. Wood sees postintellectualism as the fruit of deliberate counterintellectualism and distended intellectualism, the 'irresponsible, unbridled, linear extension of intellectual endeavors without consideration of ultimate consequences'....much of what he writes is important, compelling, irrefutable. Recommended for academic readers, entering students through faculty." Choice
Table of Content
Forward by Neil Postman Preface Illustrations Orientation: The Concept of Post-Intellectualism Our Intellectual Foundations Emergence of Post-Intellectualism Four Attributes of Post-Intellectualism Underlying Determinants of Post-Intellectualism Personal Consequences of Post-Intellectualism Illiteracy (the brave new mega-mediated world) The Fishbowl Society (loss of privacy) Cognitive Chaos (the data daze) Isolation and Loss of Direction (disoriented we despair) Social Consequences of Post-Intellectualism Hyper-Urbanization (losing our way in the concrete jungle) Economic Destitution (bankruptcy of fiscal theory) Environmental Decay (damn the resources, full speed ahead!) Moral Collapse (sex, lies, violence, and videotape) Political Consequences of Post-Intellectualism Retribalization (fragmenting the global village) Democracy and Responsibility (the freedom dilemma) Democratic Decline (the dream grows dim) Control and Manipulation (alternatives to anarchy) Prognosis: Future Directions and Considerations Concerns and Questions Steps Toward Solutions Bibliography Index
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Media Studies, Sociology / General, Public Policy / Social Policy, General, Political Ideologies / General, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Lccn
96-010420
Dewey Decimal
301
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
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