Isbn: 9780375401299 - building a bridge to the 18th century: how the past can improve our future (20 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world. Postman shows us how to reclaim that balance between mind and machine in a dazzling celebration of the accomplishments of the Enlightenment-from Jefferson's representative democracy to Locke's deductive reasoning to Rousseau's demand that the care and edification of children be considered an investment in our collective future. Here, too, is the bold assertion that Truth is invulnerable to fashion or the passing of time. Provocative and brilliantly argued, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century illuminates a navigable path through the Information Age-a byway whose signposts, it turns out, were there all along.…

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Zustand: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. very good(+). 213 pages, 8vo, red paper backed blue boards, d.w. New York: Knopf, 1999. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGeneral & World History; Very good hardcover with dust jacket. Minor creasing and nicks to dust jacket. Clean pages. Prompt shipping with tracking.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 213 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. Auflage: 1. 213 p. Der Schutzumschlag ist papierbedingt leicht gebräunt und, so wie der Vorsatz, minimal berieben. Sonst aber ein gutes und saubres Exemplar/ The dust jacket is paper lightly browned and, like the endpapers, minimally rubbed. But otherwise a good and clean copy. - At a time when 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 Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century he revisits the Enlightenment, that great flowering of ideas that provided a humane direction for the futureideas that formed our nation and that we would do well to embrace anew. He turns our attention to Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Edward Gibbon, Adam $mith, 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. Postman calls for a future connected to traditions that provide sane authority and meaningful purposeas opposed to an overreliance on technology and an increasing disregard for the lessons of history. And he argues passionately for specific new guidelines in the education of our children, with renewed emphasis on developing the intellect as successfully as we are developing a computer-driven world. Witty, provocative, and brilliantly reasoned, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century is Neil Postmans most radical, and most commonsensi- cal, book yet. 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 Amusing Ourselves to Death and Technopoly. He lives in New York City. CONTENT: Chapter One: A Bridge to the 18th Century Chapter Two: Progress Chapter Three: Technology Chapter Four: Language Chapter Five: Information Chapter Six: Narratives Chapter Seven: Children Chapter Eight: Democracy Chapter Nine: Education Appendix I: Letter from Lord Byron to Lord Holland, February 25, 1812 Appendix II: Comments on the Nature of Language by People Who Never Heard of Jacques Derrida Appendix III: On the Origin of Childhood and Why It Is Disappearing. ISBN 9780375401299 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1350.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. At a time when 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. InBuilding a Bridge to the Eighteenth Centuryhe 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. 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. Postman calls for a future connected to traditions that provide sane authority and meaningful purpose -- as opposed to an overreliance on technology and an increasing disregard for the lessons of history. And he argues passionately for specific new guidelines in the education of our children, with renewed emphasis on developing the intellect as successfully as we are developing a computer-driven world. Witty, provocative, and brilliantly reasoned,Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Centuryis Neil Postman's most radical, and most commonsensical, book yet.…