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Explores the key humane ideas that emerged out of 18th-century philosophy and science to analyze their relevance to the modern world
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Neil Postman is University Professor, Paulette Goddard Chair of Media Ecology, and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Among his twenty books are <b>Amusing Ourselves to Death</b> and <b>Technopoly</b>. He lives in New York City.
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en we are reexamining our values, reeling from the pace of change, witnessing the clash between good instincts and "pragmatism," dealing with the angst of a new millennium, Neil Postman, one of our most distinguished observers of contemporary society, provides for us a source of guidance and inspiration. In <b>Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century</b> he revisits the Enlightenment, that great flowering of ideas that provided a humane direction for the future -- ideas that formed our nation and that we would do well to embrace anew.<br><br>He turns our attention to Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin, and to their then-radical thinking about inductive science, religious and political freedom, popular education, rational commerce, the nation-state, progress, and happiness.<br><br>Postman calls for a future connected to traditions that provide sane authority and meaningful purpose -- as opposed to an
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