Building a bridge to the 18th century
how the past can improve our future
1st ed.
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Word Count
53,250 words, Guess
Page Count
213 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24962885M
- ISBN-139780375401299
- ISBN-100965076056
- OCLC Control Number50845991
- OCLC Control Number40862083
and 2 more
- Internet Archiveisbn_9780965076050
- Library of Congress Control Number99018923
Classifications
- LCCCB430 .P637 1999
Alternate 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.
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