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Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy
Donald N. Wood
其他書名
The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century
出版Bloomsbury Academic, 1996-08-30
主題Education / GeneralHistory / CivilizationPhilosophy / PoliticalPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyPolitical Science / History & TheoryPsychology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Media Studies
ISBN02759542189780275954215
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ukG7AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Our society's institutional infrastructures—our democratic political system, economic structures, legal practices, and educational establishment—were all created as intellectual outgrowths of the Enlightenment. All our cultural institutions are based on the intellectual idea that an enlightened citizenry could govern its affairs with reason and responsibility. In the late 20th century, however, we are witnessing the disintegration of much of our cultural heritage. Wood argues that this is due to our evolution into a ^Upost-intellectual society^R—a society characterized by a loss of critical thinking, the substitution of information for knowledge, mediated reality, increasing illiteracy, loss of privacy, specialization, psychological isolation, hyper-urbanization, moral anarchy, and political debilitation. These post-intellectual realities are all triggered by three underlying determinants: the failure of linear growth and expansion to sustain our economic system; the runaway information overload; and technological determinism. Wood presents a new and innovative social theory, challenging readers to analyze all our post-intellectual cultural malaise in terms of these three fundamental determinants.