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- catalog abstract ""In Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century Neil Postman revisits the Enlightenment, that great flowering of ideas that provided a humane direction for the future - ideas that formed our nation and that we would do well to embrace anew." "He turns our attention to Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin, and to their then-radical thinking about inductive science, religious and political freedom, popular education, rational commerce, the nation-state, progress, and happiness." "Postman calls for a future connected to traditions that provide sane authority and meaningful purpose - as opposed to an overreliance on technology and an increasing disregard for the lessons of history. And he argues passionately for specific new guidelines in the education of our children, with renewed emphasis on developing the intellect as successfully as we are developing a computer-driven world."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Building a bridge to the eighteenth century".
- catalog contributor b11380808.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1970-".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""In Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century Neil Postman revisits the Enlightenment, that great flowering of ideas that provided a humane direction for the future - ideas that formed our nation and that we would do well to embrace anew." "He turns our attention to Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin, and to their then-radical thinking about inductive science, religious and political freedom, popular education, rational commerce, the nation-state, progress, and happiness." "Postman calls for a future connected to traditions that provide sane authority and meaningful purpose - as opposed to an overreliance on technology and an increasing disregard for the lessons of history. And he argues passionately for specific new guidelines in the education of our children, with renewed emphasis on developing the intellect as successfully as we are developing a computer-driven world."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-203) and index.".
- catalog description "ch. 1. Bridge to the 18th century -- ch. 2. Progress -- ch. 3. Technology -- ch. 4. Language -- ch. 5. Information -- ch. 6. Narratives -- ch. 7. Children -- ch. 8. Democracy -- ch. 9. Education.".
- catalog extent "213 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Building a bridge to the 18th century.".
- catalog identifier "0375401296 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Building a bridge to the 18th century.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "Building a bridge to the 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1970-".
- catalog subject "909.82/5 21".
- catalog subject "CB430 .P637 1999".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Modern 1950-".
- catalog subject "Democracy.".
- catalog subject "Education Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Enlightenment.".
- catalog subject "Technology and civilization.".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 1. Bridge to the 18th century -- ch. 2. Progress -- ch. 3. Technology -- ch. 4. Language -- ch. 5. Information -- ch. 6. Narratives -- ch. 7. Children -- ch. 8. Democracy -- ch. 9. Education.".
- catalog title "Building a bridge to the 18th century : how the past can improve our future / by Neil Postman.".
- catalog title "Building a bridge to the eighteenth century".
- catalog type "text".