Conscientious Objections - Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education (Paperback, Reissued 1st Ed)

In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone watches the same television programs -- and television producers don't discriminate between the audiences for Sesame Street and Dynasty -- is childhood anything more than a sentimental concept? Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman sends shock waves of wit and critical intelligence through the cultural wasteland.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1992
First published:	March 1992
Authors:	Neil Postman
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	201
Edition:	Reissued 1st Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-73421-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Demonstrations & protest movements
LSN:	0-679-73421-X
Barcode:	9780679734215

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