wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30)
ISBN: 9781585427123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.
The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture. For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down popular culture available to young people and the impact it has on their futures. But at the dawn of the digital age, many thought... This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimatel...
|
|
cena:
78,06 zł |
The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief
ISBN: 9780822320043 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its relevance for the neopragmatism of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Stanley Fish, and Cornel West. In offering neopragmatism, taken from Emerson, James, and Peirce, this book suggests that the neopragmatists' arguments can be sharpened across a variety of disciplines.
A study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its relevance for the neopragmatism of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Stanle...
|
|
cena:
410,56 zł |
Literary Criticism: An Autopsy
ISBN: 9780812216257 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Literary Criticism An Autopsy Mark Bauerlein "It's later than you think Literary critics, practicing and prospective, had better take a close look at Mark Bauerlein's mordant and humorous 'autopsy.'"--Frederick Crews, editor, Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend "There isn't another book like this: a primer and a polemic on the jargon of literary study, impressive in its range of examples and uncompromising in its critique. Bauerlein describes the motives of several prospering forms of contemporary obscurantism, analyzes the conditions in which they arose, and maps the...
Literary Criticism An Autopsy Mark Bauerlein "It's later than you think Literary critics, practicing and prospective, had better take a close look at...
|
|
cena:
131,24 zł |
Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906
ISBN: 9781893554238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The roots of the 1906 Atlanta race riot are traced here through archival documents, news stories and from works by writers Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Margaret Mitchell and future NAACP leader Walter White. Illustrations.
The roots of the 1906 Atlanta race riot are traced here through archival documents, news stories and from works by writers Booker T. Washington, W.E.B...
|
|
cena:
112,53 zł |
The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking
ISBN: 9781585428861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.
Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of civility online, declining reading habits, withering... This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators...
|
|
cena:
104,08 zł |
The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief
ISBN: 9780822320135 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its relevance for the neopragmatism of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Stanley Fish, and Cornel West. In offering neopragmatism, a theory of the mind taken from Emerson, James, and Peirce, this book suggests that the neopragmatists' arguments can be sharpened across a variety of disciplines.
A study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its relevance for the neopragmatism of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Stanley Fish, and Corn...
|
|
cena:
103,89 zł |
Middle Rages: Why The Battle For Medieval Studies Matters To America
ISBN: 9789527303559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
|
cena:
52,00 zł |
The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism
ISBN: 9781599474588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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... 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 cultu...
|
|
cena:
140,27 zł |
Literature and the Conservative Ideal
ISBN: 9781498512381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. By examining the ways in which the conservative vision of the world informs certain modes of literary study and has been treated in various works of literature throughout the ages, this book seeks to recover conservatism as a viable, rigorous, intellectually sound method of critical inquiry. While it stops short of promoting political conservatism as an antidote to the dominant progressive strain of today s university, it recognizes literature s transformative power as an artistic reflection of the universal human condition. In this way, it operates against the grain of today's prevailing...
By examining the ways in which the conservative vision of the world informs certain modes of literary study and has been treated in various works of l...
|
|
cena:
481,40 zł |
The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism
ISBN: 9781599475097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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... 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 cultu...
|
|
cena:
88,29 zł |
Literature and the Conservative Ideal
ISBN: 9781498512404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Responding in part to the postmodernist turn in literary study, Literature and the Conservative Ideal examines the ways in which conservatism has been depicted in literature, as well as how its tendencies might restore literature's potential as an artistic reflection of the universal human condition.
Responding in part to the postmodernist turn in literary study, Literature and the Conservative Ideal examines the ways in which conservatism has been...
|
|
cena:
213,35 zł |