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9780140094381

Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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  • ISBN13:

    9780140094381

  • ISBN10:

    0140094385

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1986-11-01
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

The author discusses the adverse effects of watching television, a medium he claims treats everything as entertainment. Postman also wrote Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979).

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Part I 3(80)
1. The Medium Is the Metaphor
3(13)
2. Media as Epistemology
16(14)
3. Typographic America
30(14)
4. The Typographic Mind
44(20)
5. The Peek-a-Boo World
64(19)
Part II 83(82)
6. The Age of Show Business
83(16)
7. "Now...This"
99(15)
8. Shuffle Off to Bethlehem
114(11)
9. Reach Out and Elect Someone
125(17)
10. Teaching as an Amusing Activity
142(13)
11. The Huxleyan Warning
155(10)
Notes 165(8)
Bibliography 173(4)
Index 177

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