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Like ancient Rome in the fourth and fifth centuries, the American Empire has now seen the passage of its most triumphant years and is rapidly approaching a period of increased social chaos. So argues Morris Berman in The Twilight of American Culture, one of the most caustic portraits of American society to date. Whether examining the corruption at the heart of modern politics, the "Rambification" of popular entertainment, or the collapse of our school systems, Berman's analysis makes clear that there is little we can do as a society to arrest the onset of corporate Mass Mind culture.Citing writers as diverse as de Toqueville and Don DeLillo, Berman argues that cultural preservation is a matter of individual conscience, a refusal to base one's life on kitsch or consumerism, profit or self-promotion. He discusses how classical learning might triumph over political correctness with the rise of a "a new monastic individual" -- a person who, much like the medieval monk, is willing to retreat from conventional society in order to preserve its literary and historical treasures. The Twilight of American Culture is a book no literate, thinking American can afford to be without.
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Berman, an innovative cultural historian and social critic, offers an engaging account of our cultural decline. He reminds us of the persistence of the gap between rich and poor, the decline of functional literacy, and the antipathy our culture has toward anything intellectual. He explains how Enlightenment success devolved from free rational inqui
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Morris Berman is a cultural historian and the author of The Twilight of American Culture. He has held a number of university appointments, most recently as Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
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- PublisherWW Norton & Co
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0393048799
- ISBN 13 9780393048797
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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