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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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"Patient, humane . . . [Postman] may well be ahead of his time." --San Francisco Examiner
"[Postman's] most ambitious attempt yet to help America survive the future." -- The New York Observer "[A] critique of the claims made on behalf of technology, along with a defense of old-fashioned liberal humanism."--The New York Times Book Review "A refreshing antidote to the current mania for starry-eyed futurism. . . . Reminds us that Goethe and Voltaire . . . might be better guides into the twenty-first century than Bill Gates or Alvin Toffler." --Utne ReaderAbout the Author
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.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0375401296
- ISBN 13 9780375401299
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages213
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