Neil Postman

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business is a book by educator Neil Postman. The book's origins lay in a talk Postman gave to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1984. He was participating in a panel on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and the contemporary world. In the introduction to his …

Neil Postman is one of the most level-headed analysts of education, media, and technology, and in this book he spells out the increasing dependence upon technology, numerical quantification, and misappropriation of "Scientism" to all human affairs. No simple technophobe, Postman argues insightfully and writes with a …

Do autor de «O Desaparecimento da Infância» e «Tecnopólis», surge agora uma análise original sobre a actual crise da educação nos Estados Unidos. Neil Postman afirma que a actual crise no sistema educativo resulta do seu fracasso em fornecer aos estudantes uma «narrativa» unificadora e transcendente como a que …