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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; 1st Vintage Books ed edition (March 3, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 067973421X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679734215
  • Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Great Introduction to Neil Postman
By Jeffrey S. Bennion on April 12, 1999
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This book contains essays and chapter excerpts from most of his other works (though not the later ones like Technopoly and The End of Education). Neil Postman is one of the keenest and most articulate of that species I call the "cultural hand-wringers". I'm very sympathetic to the arguments he makes, though sometimes I think he may be a bit too dire. I've read everything he's written that I can get my hands on, and all of it has been a total delight. (I'd steer any Postman fans to Robert Hughes _The Culture of Complaint_ for similarly keen, delightful, and refreshing take-no-prisoners denunciations) Since so much of his work is a complaint about how form (e.g. TV) has coopted function, I hardly think Postman himself would approve of this kind of recommendation, but he's so much fun to read even if you *don't* agree with him that it's worth the effort anyway. But watch out: he's so persuasive and passionate with his arguments, you'll probably end up doing so no matter how well-armed you are against it.
Two essays that have stuck in my mind: "The German Question" where he ponders what the Holocaust consciousness will mean to postwar Germany, and "The Small Screen" where Postman is invited to write something nice about television for once.
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2.0 out of 5 starsDisappointed
By A Customer on April 2, 2002
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I have admired Neil Postman ever since the days of Teaching As a Subversive Activity. It's thus with regret that I can't recommend this collection of essays. I found little insight, much condescension, and even more of what in his opening essay he sneered at social scientists for doing: stating the obvious as if it was profound discovery.
That opening essay, "Social Science as Moral Theology," in which he attempts - and fails - to show that sociologists, psychologists, and the like are "storytellers" rather than scientists, is a prime example. (Since my background is in physics, I should have been expected to be sympathetic to Postman's view. That I still found it so unconvincing should be an indication of how weak his argument is.) Just a few examples:
- He defines "science" in a way that excludes social sciences - an utterly invalid method by which anyone can "prove" literally anything.
- He derides as meaningless non-science studies linking TV viewing with aggressive behavior because they haven't come to any clear conclusion. (Astronomers still can't agree on how galaxies form. Are they not doing science?)
- He misstates scientific process and misdefines "empirical" as requiring "natural life situations," by which standard all of quantum physics and much of relativity physics are likewise non-scientific "storytelling."
- And frankly, anyone who gleefully writes about how he sprang a well-considered line of argument on a professor and brags that "it did not take me long ... to reduce her to saying" such-and so is not engaging in rational argument but ego-tripping.
What makes this all the more frustrating is that in subsequent chapters he does not hesitate to use some of the same methods he denounces as "storytelling" - demographic surveys, intergroup comparisons, etc.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA perfect place to begin with Neil Postman
By D. D. on March 23, 2012
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This book of essays and articles nicely consolidates the different themes that Postman wrote about over the years. Most of the ideas here are further detailed and explored in his single topic books, such as his flagship book on television AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH and TECHNOPOLY. Certainly the material here will be familiar terrain to Postman veterans, but there are a few gems that still make it worthwhile. I initially refrained from buying this book because much of it was pre-published material and I'd assumed familiarity from what I'd already read in his other books. However, selections like "Alfred Korzybski" and "My German Question", in which Postman describes a 1985 trip to Germany he was commissioned to take and write about were fantastic new material. But for a reader new to Neil Postman this is the perfect book.

No one will agree with everything they read in this book. I certainly don't. The thing is, there's a voice here of a sort that I just can't find in today's culture critics. It's an entirely human voice, one still dubious about the ceding of formerly human domains to technology. One that isn't going to speak to you as a statistical amalgam of ideas or vaguely take you for granted as a political opponent or ally. One of the reasons that I think Postman's books are even more important now than they were 20 or 30 years ago is that he so perfectly documents his portion of our transition from a literate to electric society. As time passes we obviously have less people speaking who were around before certain technological changes took place. The younger generations are often unaware of their new environment and it's effects as anything but compulsory or even natural.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsNot bad, but only if you're new to Postman.
By Gary J. Malone (gmalone@clearinfo.ie) on August 19, 1999
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The book probably is a good summary of Neil Postman's ideas if you're new to him, but if you've already read his major works there's not much here to recommend. In fact, some of the ideas and even the prose can be pretty slack at times. Should pique the interest of newcomers, however.
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