Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future

Postman, Neil

ISBN 10: 0375401296 / ISBN 13: 9780375401299

Published by Knopf, 1999

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Title: Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How ...

Publisher: Knopf

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

Explores the key humane ideas that emerged out of 18th-century philosophy and science to analyze their relevance to the modern world

Review:

"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 Reader