The state of the American mind : 16 leading critics on the new anti-intellectualism / edited by Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauerlein, Mark.

Contributor:

Bauerlein, Mark, editor.

Bellow, Adam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--United States.

Intellectuals.

Mass media and culture--United States.

Mass media and culture.

United States--Intellectual life--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2015.

West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania : Templeton Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 beyond what m

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword-America: Are We Losing Our Mind?; Introduction-The Knowledge Requirement: What Every American Needs to Know; Part One-States of Mind: Indicators of Intellectual and Cognitive Decline; 1. The Troubling Trend of Cultural IQ ; 2. Biblical Literacy Matters ; 3. Why Johnny and Joanie Can't Write, Revisited ; 4. College Graduates: Satisfied, but Adrift ; 5. Anatomy of an Epidemic ; Part Two-Personal and Cognitive Habits/Interests; 6. A Wired Nation Tunes Out the News ; 7. Catching Our Eye: The Alluring Fallacy of Knowing at a Glance

8. The Rise of the Self and the Decline of Intellectual and Civic Interest 9. Has Internet-Fueled Conspiracy-Mongering Crested? ; Part Three-National Consequences; 10. Dependency in America: American Exceptionalism and the Entitlement State ; 11. Political Ignorance in America ; 12. In Defense of Difficulty: How the Decline of the Ideal of Seriousness Has Dulled Democracy in the Name of a Phony Populism ; 13. We Live in the Age of Feelings ; 14. How Colleges Create the "Expectation of Confirmation" ; 15. The New Antinomian Attitude ; Afterword; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 13, 2015).

ISBN:

9781599475097

159947509X

OCLC:

910447091