03679nam 2200649 450 991078810220332120230807210731.01-59947-509-X(CKB)2670000000618088(EBL)2056342(SSID)ssj0001540752(PQKBManifestationID)11921407(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001540752(PQKBWorkID)11533788(PQKB)11611577(MiAaPQ)EBC2056342(MiAaPQ)EBC6233024(Au-PeEL)EBL2056342(CaPaEBR)ebr11060781(CaONFJC)MIL788423(OCoLC)910447091(MiAaPQ)EBC30753322(Au-PeEL)EBL30753322(EXLCZ)99267000000061808820150613h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe state of the American mind 16 leading critics on the new anti-intellectualism /edited by Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow1st ed.West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania :Templeton Press,2015.©20151 online resource (280 p.)Subtitle from cover.1-59947-459-X 1-59947-458-1 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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 Glance8. 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; IndexIn 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 mIntellectualsUnited StatesMass media and cultureUnited StatesUnited StatesIntellectual life21st centuryIntellectualsMass media and culture305.5520973Bauerlein MarkBellow AdamMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788102203321The state of the American mind3777203UNINA