New York: Pantheon Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 0375423745 . Book is in NF condition with light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with trace edge wear, very small damp stain to rear cover else bright, intact and whole.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

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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." 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 anti-rationalism. 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.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: JB's Book Vault (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000297
Title: THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON
Author: Jacoby, Susan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0375423745
ISBN 13: 9780375423741
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2008
LCCN: 2007021562
Keywords: 0375423745, Jacoby, Age, American, Unreason, Mass Media, Pop Culture, Psychology
Bookseller catalogs: Politics;

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