
Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
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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.
Witty, provocative, and brilliantly reasoned, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century is Neil Postman's most radical, and most commonsensical, book yet.
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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Prelude
- Introduction
- Chapter One - A Bridge to the 18th Century
- Chapter Two - Progress
- Chapter Three - Technology
- Chapter Four - Language
- Chapter Five - Information
- Chapter Six - Narratives
- Chapter Seven - Children
- Chapter Eight - Democracy
- Chapter Nine - Education
- Appendix I - Letter from Lord Byron to Lord Holland, February 25, 1812
- Appendix II - Comments on the Nature of Language by People Who Never Heard of Jacques Derrida
- Appendix III - On the Origin of Childhood and Why It Is Disappearing
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Books by Neil Postman
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