Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American CultureWith vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayist--including John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George F. Kennan, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Epstein, and Brad Leithauser--examine aspects of our pan-cultural "dumbing down" and offer both diagnoses of and possible cures for this wasting disease. |
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DUMBING DOWN: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture
Avis d'utilisateur - KirkusTwenty-two sparkling essays defend the apocalyptic proposition that American culture ``has somehow begun sliding down a long, steep chute into nullity.'' Ever since Allan Bloom unexpectedly hit the ... Consulter l'avis complet
Dumbing down: essays on the strip mining of American culture
Avis d'utilisateur - Not Available - Book VerdictThe editors of this collection believe that an infection of thoughtlessness has placed American culture in a terminal condition. Washburn, a writer and translator, and literary agent Thornton have ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
Foreword by the Editors | 11 |
Some Leading Indicators | 23 |
Introduction by John Simon | 43 |
Gilbert T Sewall The Postmodern Schoolhouse | 57 |
The Return | 68 |
Heather MacDonald Writing Down Together | 88 |
Steven Goldberg The Erosion of the Social Sciences | 97 |
Brad Leithauser The Saving Minutes | 114 |
Joseph Epstein What to Do about the Arts | 179 |
PART THREE The Media | 197 |
Sven Birkerts Homo Virtualis | 209 |
Kent Carroll The Facts of Fiction and the Fiction of Facts | 224 |
PART FOUR Public Life | 237 |
David Klinghoffer Kitsch Religion | 250 |
The Waxing | 261 |
Jonathan Rosen The Trivialization of Tragedy | 270 |
David R Slavitt Circling the Squires | 126 |
Ken Kalfus Last Night at the Planetarium | 139 |
Park Voodoo Science | 149 |
A Defense of Popular | 157 |
Phillip Lopate The Last Taboo | 164 |
Armstrong Williams I Feel Good to Be a Black Male | 281 |
PART FIVE Private Life | 297 |
Paul R McHugh Whats the Story? | 308 |
Michael Vincent Miller Does Sex Still Exist? | 321 |
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Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture Cultural Studies |
| Rédacteurs | Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton |
| Collaborateur | John Ivan Simon |
| Éditeur | W. W. Norton & Company, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0393317234, 9780393317237 |
| Longueur | 329 pages |
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