书目名称 | Intellectuals in the Society of Spectacle | 编辑 | Christopher Britt,Eduardo Subirats | 视频video | | 概述 | Examines the disappearance of the public intellectual in contemporary times.Explains the danger of today’s intellectual vacuum.Argues for the rejuvenation of humanist values and the intellectual tradi | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book reveals the sense in which our postmodern societies are characterized by the obscene absence of the intellectual. The modern intellectual--who had once been associated with humanism and enlightenment—has in our day been replaced by media stars, talking heads, and technical experts. At issue is the ongoing crisis of democracy, under the aegis of the .société du spectacle. and its vast networks of politically-induced idiocy, industrially-produced biocide, and militarily-provoked genocide. Spectacle fills the resulting moral and intellectual vacuum with electronic technologies of control, punishment, and destruction. This postmodern tyranny reduces intelligence to mechanistic, positivist, and grammatological models of inquiry, while increasing the segmentation, fragmentation, and dissolution of human existence. The apotheosis of the spectacle explains the intellectual void that lies at the heart of our postmodern decadence; it also accounts for theneed to recuperate the humanist values of enlightenment promoted by the modern intellectual tradition.. | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | 关键词 | Al-Andalus; Edward Said; Ibn Rushd; Emerson; Goethe; Paul Berman | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73106-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-73108-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-73106-9 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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