Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion

Cover: 9781568586137 | Empire of Illusion | The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

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From a bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a scathing polemic against the spectacle-obsessed culture that has taken over American life.

"A trenchantly argued critique of the near-destruction of the American Dream by unfettered capitalism." -Philadelphia Inquirer

An instant bestseller, Chris Hedges's Empire of Illusion is one of the most striking and unsettling explorations of illusion and fantasy in contemporary American culture.

Traveling to the ringside of professional wrestling bouts at Madison Square Garden, to a pornography convention in Las Vegas, and to academic conferences held by positive psychologists-who claim to be able to engineer happiness-Hedges chronicles the encroachment of artifice and propaganda in all corners of American life. He exposes the mechanisms used to divert us from confronting the economic, environmental, political, and moral collapse around us.

A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies, Hedges argues, and we are dying now.

From a bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a scathing polemic against the spectacle-obsessed culture that has taken over American life.

"A trenchantly argued critique of the near-destruction of the American Dream by unfettered capitalism." -Philadelphia Inquirer

An instant bestseller, Chris Hedges's Empire of Illusion is one of the most striking and unsettling explorations of illusion and fantasy in contemporary American culture.

A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies, Hedges argues, and we are dying now.

Über den Autor

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years forThe New York [...] previously worked overseas forThe Dallas Morning News,The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is host of the Emmy Awardnominated RT America showOn Contact.Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of numerous books, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist forWar Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2013.

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Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781568586137
ISBN-10:	1568586132
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hedges, Chris
Hersteller:	Bold Type Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	210 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Chris Hedges
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.10.2010
Gewicht:	0,337 kg