Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy - The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century

List of contents

Forward by Neil Postman
Preface
Illustrations
Orientation: The Concept of Post-Intellectualism
Our Intellectual Foundations
Emergence of Post-Intellectualism
Four Attributes of Post-Intellectualism
Underlying Determinants of Post-Intellectualism
Personal Consequences of Post-Intellectualism
Illiteracy (the brave new mega-mediated world)
The Fishbowl Society (loss of privacy)
Cognitive Chaos (the data daze)
Isolation and Loss of Direction (disoriented we despair)
Social Consequences of Post-Intellectualism
Hyper-Urbanization (losing our way in the concrete jungle)
Economic Destitution (bankruptcy of fiscal theory)
Environmental Decay (damn the resources, full speed ahead!)
Moral Collapse (sex, lies, violence, and videotape)
Political Consequences of Post-Intellectualism Retribalization (fragmenting the global village)
Democracy and Responsibility (the freedom dilemma)
Democratic Decline (the dream grows dim)
Control and Manipulation (alternatives to anarchy)
Prognosis: Future Directions and Considerations
Concerns and Questions
Steps Toward Solutions
Bibliography
Index

About the author

DONALD N. WOOD is Professor of Radio-Television-Film at California State University, Northridge. He is author of Educational Telecommunications (1977), Mass Media and the Individual (1983), Designing the Effective Message (1989), and co-author of Television Productions: Disciplines and Techniques (1978, and Sixth ed. 1995).

Product details

• Authors: Donald Wood, Wood Donald N.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.1996
• EAN: 9780275956615
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95661-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, Politics, Law, and Government