The Twilight Of The American Mind
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The Twilight Of The American Mind
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Author : Walter B. Pitkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
The Twilight Of The American Mind written by Walter B. Pitkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Intellectuals categories.
Closing Of The American Mind
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Author : Allan Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-06-30
Closing Of The American Mind written by Allan Bloom and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-30 with Social Science categories.
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
The American Mind
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
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The Hacking Of The American Mind
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Author : Robert H. Lustig
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-09-12
The Hacking Of The American Mind written by Robert H. Lustig and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-12 with Science categories.
"Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts."—David Perlmutter, MD, Author, #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain and Brain Maker The New York Times–bestselling author of Fat Chance reveals the corporate scheme to sell pleasure, driving the international epidemic of addiction, depression, and chronic disease. While researching the toxic and addictive properties of sugar for his New York Times bestseller Fat Chance, Robert Lustig made an alarming discovery—our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression from which we may never recover. Dopamine is the “reward” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we want more; yet every substance or behavior that releases dopamine in the extreme leads to addiction. Serotonin is the “contentment” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we don’t need any more; yet its deficiency leads to depression. Ideally, both are in optimal supply. Yet dopamine evolved to overwhelm serotonin—because our ancestors were more likely to survive if they were constantly motivated—with the result that constant desire can chemically destroy our ability to feel happiness, while sending us down the slippery slope to addiction. In the last forty years, government legislation and subsidies have promoted ever-available temptation (sugar, drugs, social media, porn) combined with constant stress (work, home, money, Internet), with the end result of an unprecedented epidemic of addiction, anxiety, depression, and chronic disease. And with the advent of neuromarketing, corporate America has successfully imprisoned us in an endless loop of desire and consumption from which there is no obvious escape. With his customary wit and incisiveness, Lustig not only reveals the science that drives these states of mind, he points his finger directly at the corporations that helped create this mess, and the government actors who facilitated it, and he offers solutions we can all use in the pursuit of happiness, even in the face of overwhelming opposition. Always fearless and provocative, Lustig marshals a call to action, with seminal implications for our health, our well-being, and our culture.
The Pentagon S Battle For The American Mind
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Author : Lori L. Bogle
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-12
The Pentagon S Battle For The American Mind written by Lori L. Bogle and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-12 with History categories.
The U.S. military has historically believed itself to be the institution best suited to develop the character, spiritual values, and patriotism of American youth. In Strategy for Survival, Lori Bogle investigates how the armed forces assigned itself the role of guardian and interpreter of national values and why it sought to create “ideologically sound Americans capable of defeating communism and assuring the victory of democracy at home and abroad.” Bogle shows that a tendency by some in the armed forces to diffuse their view of America’s civil religion among the general population predated tension with the Soviet Union. Bogle traces this trend from the Progressive Era though the early Cold War, when the Truman and Eisenhower administrations took seriously the battle of ideologies of that era and formulated plans that promised not only to meet the armed forces’ manpower needs but also to prepare the American public morally and spiritually for confrontation with the evils of communism. Both Truman’s plan for Universal Military Training and Eisenhower’s psychological warfare programs promoted an evangelical democracy and sought to inculcate a secular civil-military religion in the general public. During the early 1960s, joint military-civilian anticommunist conferences, organized by the authority of the Department of Defense, were exploited by ultra-conservative civilians advancing their own political and religious agendas. Bogle’s analysis suggests that cooperation among evangelicals, the military, and government was considered both necessary and normal. The Boy Scouts pushed a narrow vision of American democracy, and Joe McCarthy’s chauvinism was less an aberration than a particularly noxious manifestation of a widespread attitude. To combat communism, American society and its armed forces embraced brainwashing—narrow moral education that attacked everyone and everything not consonant with their view of the world and how it ought to be ordered. Exposure of this alliance ultimately dissolved it. However, the cult of toughness and the blinkered view of reality that characterized the armed forces and American society during the Cold War are still valued by many, and are thus still worthy of consideration.
The American Mind In The Mid Nineteenth Century
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Author : Irving H. Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1982-01-15
The American Mind In The Mid Nineteenth Century written by Irving H. Bartlett and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-01-15 with History categories.
EXCERPT: "The half century between the War of 1812 and the Civil War was above all an age of expansiveness in America. Whether measured in terms of population, territory, urbanization, economic growth, technological development, democratization, or nationalism, American society was transformed quantitatively and qualitatively at a spectacular rate. What Americans thought about themselves, their country, and their universe was always tightly linked to the changes they confronted, and the ideas they shared and disputed were both a product of and a commentary upon the expanding political, social, and economic democracy of the period. Strictly speaking, of course, there was no "American mind" during this period, since Americans were then, as they are now, of many minds. Child and adult, man and woman, native and foreign born, Northerner and Southerner, slave and citizen-everyone who lived in America lived in a world of ideas and values shaped in part by a particular history and particular circumstances. However, as Tocqueville observed after visiting America in the 1830s, the citizens of any vigorous society are usually "rallied and held together by certain predominant ideas." Except for the chapter on the slave-holding South, we will be concerned here with the dominant ideas and values most Americans shared and identified with their new nation during the years from 1815 to 1860."
Wilderness And The American Mind
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Author : Roderick Frazier Nash
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-28
Wilderness And The American Mind written by Roderick Frazier Nash and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-28 with Nature categories.
A study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective.
The American Mind
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Author : Henry Steele Commager
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
The American Mind written by Henry Steele Commager and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with History categories.
An analysis of the political and social thought prevalent in America from 1880 to 1940
The Twilight Of American Culture
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Author : Morris Berman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2001
The Twilight Of American Culture written by Morris Berman and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown--and 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--and corporate mass mind culture-- to date.
The American Mind
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Author : Bliss Perry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-11
The American Mind written by Bliss Perry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-11 with categories.
The American Mind Bliss Perry