The Twilight of American Culture
Morris Berman
An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdownand a surprising solution. A prophetic examination of Western decline, The Twilight of American Culture provides one of the most caustic and surprising portraits of American society to date. Whether examining the corruption at the heart of modern politics, the "Rambification" of popular entertainment, or the collapse of our school systems, Morris Berman suspects that there is little we can do as a society to arrest the onset of corporate Mass Mind culture. Citing writers as diverse as de Toqueville and DeLillo, he cogently argues that cultural preservation is a matter of individual conscience, and discusses how classical learning might triumph over political correctness with the rise of a "a new monastic individual"a person who, much like the medieval monk, is willing to retreat from conventional society in order to preserve its literary and historical treasures.
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Рік:
2000
Видання:
First Edition
Видавництво:
W. W. Norton & Company
Мова:
english
ISBN 10:
0393048799
ISBN 13:
9780393048797
Файл:
EPUB, 374 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2000