Amusing Ourselves to Death
1985 book by Neil Postman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) 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 book, Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, rather than by Orwell's work, where they were oppressed by state violence.
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Author | Neil Postman |
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Language | English |
Subject | Media ecology |
Publisher | Viking Penguin (US), Methuen Publishing (UK) |
Publication date | 1985 (1985) |
Media type | |
Pages | 184 |
ISBN | 0670804541 |
302.2/34 | |
LC Class | P94.P63 1985[1] |
Text | Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business at Internet Archive |
Postman's book has been translated into eight languages and sold some 200,000 copies worldwide. In 2005, Postman's son Andrew reissued the book in a 20th anniversary edition.[not verified in body]