Neil Postman

Ubavit se k smrti s podtitulem Veřejná komunikace ve věku zábavy je kniha amerického mediálního teoretika Neila Postmana, která vyšla v roce 1985 v USA, v Česku se dočkala dvou vydání v překladu Ireny Reifové.

Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. …

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 …