Conscientious Objections Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
Conscientious Objections Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education by Neil Postman is a thought-provoking collection of essays published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on March 3, 1992. This 1st Vintage Books edition, comprising 224 pages, presents Postman’s incisive critique of contemporary culture, focusing on the dynamics of discourse, education, and the impact of technology on society.
In these essays, Postman challenges readers to reconsider their fundamental beliefs about education and technological advancement. He explores whether education should serve to transmit culture or act as a defense against it, and questions the nature of progress in the context of American society’s obsession with innovation. Through his sharp wit and critical insights, Postman engages with themes relevant to social science and philosophy, encouraging a deeper understanding of the social aspects of language and technology.
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In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America’s sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst — and the best — of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone watches the same television programs — and television producers don’t discriminate between the audiences for Sesame Street and Dynasty — is childhood anything more than a sentimental concept? Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman sends shock waves of wit and critical intelligence through the cultural wasteland.
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