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| | Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy :
The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century
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| | by Donald N. Wood, Neil Postman (Foreword)
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ZIN Product Number: 10054855
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 302 pages
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
ISBN: 027595661X
Release Date: Jan 11, 1997
| |  | | | In Brief
This examination of Western civilization's cultural turmoil presents a new and innovative social theory, arguing that we have evolved into a post-intellectual culture--a society characterized by information overload, increasing illiteracy, loss of critical thinking, and psychological isolation.
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Our society's institutional infrastructures--our democratic political system, economic structures, legal practices, and educational establishment--were all created as intellectual outgrowths of the Enlightenment. All our cultural institutions are based on the intellectual idea that an enlightened citizenry could govern its affairs with reason and responsibility. In the late 20th century, however, we are witnessing the disintegration of much of our cultural heritage. Wood argues that this is due to our evolution into a post-intellectual society--a society characterized by a loss of critical thinking, the substitution of information for knowledge, mediated reality, increasing illiteracy, loss of privacy, specialization, psychological isolation, hyper-urbanization, moral anarchy, and political debilitation. These post-intellectual realities are all triggered by three underlying determinants: the failure of linear growth and expansion to sustain our economic system; the runaway information overload; and technological determinism. Wood presents a new and innovative social theory, challenging readers to analyze all our post-intellectual cultural malaise in terms of these three fundamental determinants.
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| | | |  | | | | Figures and Tables | | | Foreword | | | Preface | | | Pt. 1 | Orientation: The Concept of Post-Intellectualism | 1 | | 1 | Our Intellectual Foundations | 3 | | 2 | Emergence of Post-Intellectualism | 19 | | 3 | Four Attributes of Post-Intellectualism | 35 | | 4 | Underlying Determinants of Post-Intellectualism | 49 | | Pt. 2 | Personal Consequences of Post-Intellectualism | 65 | | 5 | Illiteracy: The Brave New Mega-Mediated World | 67 | | 6 | The Fishbowl Society: Loss of Privacy | 85 | | 7 | Cognitive Chaos: The Data Daze | 99 | | 8 | Isolation and Loss of Direction: Disoriented We Despair | 113 | | Pt. 3 | Social Consequences of Post-Intellectualism | 131 | | 9 | Hyper-Urbanization: Losing Our Way in the Concrete Jungle | 133 | | 10 | Economic Destitution: Bankruptcy of Fiscal Theory | 145 | | 11 | Environmental Decay: Damn the Resources, Full Speed Ahead! | 159 | | 12 | Moral Collapse: Sex, Lies, Violence, and Videotape | 173 | | Pt. 4 | Political Consequences of Post-Intellectualism | 187 | | 13 | Retribalization: Fragmenting the Global Village | 189 | | 14 | Democracy and Responsibility: The Freedom Dilemma | 201 | | 15 | Democratic Decline: The Dream Grows Dim | 213 | | 16 | Control and Manipulation: Alternatives to Anarchy | 229 | | Pt. 5 | Prognosis: Future Directions and Considerations | 241 | | 17 | Concerns and Questions | 243 | | 18 | Steps Toward Solutions | 255 | | Selected Bibliography | 269 | | Index | 285 |
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