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Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. A very good copy. --- In Dumbing Down passionate observers across the political, intellectual, and generational spectrums cast a worried eye on the accelerating downward spiral of American life, art, and thought-and not a moment too soon. - - The American scene, once so full of richness, promise, vitality, and achievement, now strikes many critics as a dispiriting carnival of follies, a spectacle of decline. In every area of our lives- including, but not limited to, education, politics, journalism, literature, ethics, film, religion, popular culture, jurisprudence, psychiatry, and even cuisine-one can observe an ominous slippage, a shift towards the bizarre, the third-rate, the purely opportunistic. How did such a vibrant legacy of knowledge, tradition, and competence come to be so rapidly squandered in so short a time? And can this pan-cultural "dumbing down" be halted or reversed? - - This volume collects twenty-three essays- most of them written for this book that confront such developments with vigor, wit, learning, com- mon sense, and urgency. Contributors include such superb critics and commentators as Philip Lopate, Cynthia Ozick, Michael Vincent Miller, Joseph Epstein, Sven Birkerts, George F. Kennan, Brad Leithauser, and John Simon. Various in their styles, concerns, and political allegiances, they are united in their dismay about a culture in the throes of dismantling itself. The essays in Dumbing Down, whether well-modulated or cries from the heart, are a call to action and renewal. --- CONTENTS: Foreword by the Editors - - Dumbing Down: Some Leading Indicators Introduction by John Simon - - PART ONE Education - - Gilbert T. Sewall - - The Postmodern Schoolhouse - - Cynthia Ozick - - The Question of Our Speech: The Return to - - Aural Culture - - Heather MacDonald - - Writing Down Together - - Steven Goldberg - - The Erosion of the Social Sciences - - Brad Leithauser - - The Saving Minutes - - David R. Slavitt - - Circling the Squires - - PART TWO Arts & Sciences - - Ken Kalfus - - Last Night at the Planetarium - - Robert L. Park - - Voodoo Science - - Anthony DeCurtis - - I'll Take My Stand: A Defense of Popular - - Culture - - Phillip Lopate - - The Last Taboo - - Joseph Epstein - - What to Do about the Arts - - PART THREE The Media - - James B. Twitchell - - "But First, a Word from Our Sponsor": Advertising and the Carnivalization of Culture - - Sven Birkerts - - Homo Virtualis - - Kent Carroll - - The Facts of Fiction and the Fiction of Facts - - PART FOUR Public Life - - George F. Kennan - - David Klinghoffer - - Carole Rifkind - - Jonathan Rosen Armstrong Williams - - Egalitarianism and Diversity Kitsch Religion America's Fantasy Urbanism: The Waxin the Mall and the Waning of Civility The Trivialization of Tragedy - - "I Feel Good to Be a Black Male" - - PART FIVE Private Life - - Nahum Waxman - - Paul R. McHugh - - Michael Vincent Miller - - Cooking Dumb, Eating Dumb - - What's the Story? Does Sex Still Exist? Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.