Conscientious Objections

Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education

Omschrijving

In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone watches the same television programs -- and television producers don't discriminate between the audiences for Sesame Street and Dynasty -- is childhood anything more than a sentimental concept? Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman sends shock waves of wit and critical intelligence through the cultural wasteland.
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Schrijver
Postman, Neil
Titel
Conscientious Objections
Uitgever
Random House USA Inc
Jaar
1992
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
224
Gewicht
249 gr
EAN
9780679734215
Afmetingen
210 x 133 x 13 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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