Building a bridge to the 18th century
Subtitle: how the past can improve our future
By: Neil Postman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780375401299
Subjects: Technologie et civilisation; Enlightenment; Democracy; Éducation; Démocratie; Philosophy; Technology and civilization; Civilization; Modern Civilization; Siècle des lumières; Education; Civilisation; Philosophie
Other titles: Building a bridge to the eighteenth century
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."--BOOK JACKET.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: Bridge to the 18th century -- -- ch. 2.; title: Progress -- -- ch. 3.; title: Technology -- -- ch. 4.; title: Language -- -- ch. 5.; title: Information -- -- ch. 6.; title: Narratives -- -- ch. 7.; title: Children -- -- ch. 8.; title: Democracy -- -- ch. 9.; title: Education.