Introduction
Part I
1. The Medium Is the Metaphor
2. Media as Epistemology
3. Typographic America
4. The Typographic Mind
5. The Peek-a-Boo World
Part II
6. The Age of Show Business
7. "Now...This"
8. Shuffle Off to Bethlehem
9. Reach Out and Elect Someone
10. Teaching as an Amusing Activity
11. The Huxleyan Warning
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Neil Postman (1931–2003) was chairman of the Department of Communication Arts at New York University and founder of its Media Ecology program. He wrote more than twenty books.
“I can’t think of a more prophetic, more thoughtful, more necessary
– and yes, more entertaining – book about media culture.” –Victor
Navasky, National Book Award-winning author of The Art of
Controversy
“All I can say about Neil Postman’s brilliant Amusing Ourselves to
Death is: Guilty As Charged.” –Matt Groening, Creator of The
Simpsons
“As a fervent evangelist of the age of Hollywood, I publicly
opposed Neil Postman’s dark picture of our media-saturated future.
But time has proved Postman right. He accurately foresaw that the
young would inherit a frantically all-consuming media culture of
glitz, gossip, and greed.” –Camille Paglia
“A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment
that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable
one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
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