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1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (EBL platform, viewed August 12, 2015). |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword-America: Are We Losing Our Mind?; Introduction-The Knowledge Requirement: What Every American Needs to Know; Part One-States of Mind: Indicators of Intellectual and Cognitive Decline; 1. The Troubling Trend of Cultural IQ ; 2. Biblical Literacy Matters ; 3. Why Johnny and Joanie Can't Write, Revisited ; 4. College Graduates: Satisfied, but Adrift ; 5. Anatomy of an Epidemic ; Part Two-Personal and Cognitive Habits/Interests; 6. A Wired Nation Tunes Out the News ; 7. Catching Our Eye: The Alluring Fallacy of Knowing at a Glance. |
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8. The Rise of the Self and the Decline of Intellectual and Civic Interest 9. Has Internet-Fueled Conspiracy-Mongering Crested? ; Part Three-National Consequences; 10. Dependency in America: American Exceptionalism and the Entitlement State ; 11. Political Ignorance in America ; 12. In Defense of Difficulty: How the Decline of the Ideal of Seriousness Has Dulled Democracy in the Name of a Phony Populism ; 13. We Live in the Age of Feelings ; 14. How Colleges Create the "Expectation of Confirmation" ; 15. The New Antinomian Attitude ; Afterword; Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
In 1987, Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind was published; a wildly popular book that drew attention to the shift in American culture away from the tenants that made America-and Americans-unique. Bloom focused on a breakdown in the American curriculum, but many sensed that the issue affected more than education. The very essence of what it meant to be an American was disappearing. That was over twenty years ago. Since then, the United States has experienced unprecedented wealth, more youth enrolling in higher education than ever before, and technology advancements far beyond what m. |
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
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Education -- United States.
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Mass media and culture -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Education. (OCoLC)fst00902499
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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Mass media and culture. (OCoLC)fst01011339
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bauerlein, Mark, editor.
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Bellow, Adam, 1957- editor.
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| Added Title |
16 leading critics on the new anti-intellectualism |
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Sixteen leading critics on the new anti-intellectualism |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bauerlein, Mark. State of the American Mind : 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism. West Conshohocken : Templeton Press, ©2015 9781599474588 |
| ISBN |
9781599474595 (electronic bk.) |
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159947459X (electronic bk.) |
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