DONALD N. WOOD is Professor Emeritus, Media Studies, California State University, Northbridge. He is the author of Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy (Praeger, 1996).

• AcknowledgmentsFiguresIntroductionThe Problem: Defining What's WrongA Culture in DisarrayModernism: Defining the Intellectual RootsIntellectualism: Defining the Twin PillarsExploring PostmodernismExploring Post-IntellectualismThree Periods of Intellectual EvolutionTwo Faces of Post-IntellectualismThe Causes: How Things Got Out of ControlInherent Contradictions of IntellectualismThree Underlying DeterminantsThe Transition to Post-IntellectualismThe Real Story of the SixtiesLiving in a Mediated RealityThe Effects: Six Crises of the Twenty-First CenturyDiscarding IndividualismSwapping Materialism for MoralityRejecting ReasonCourting Ecological DisasterEmbracing Tribalism and Religious FundamentalismGiving Up on DemocracySolutions: Several Outlandish ProposalsThe Search for ValuesEducational RestructuringEnvironmental RestorationEconomic ReformGlobal TransformationNotesBibliographyIndex

DONALD N. WOOD is Professor Emeritus, Media Studies, California State University, Northbridge. He is the author of Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy (Praeger, 1996).

• AcknowledgmentsFiguresIntroductionThe Problem: Defining What's WrongA Culture in DisarrayModernism: Defining the Intellectual RootsIntellectualism: Defining the Twin PillarsExploring PostmodernismExploring Post-IntellectualismThree Periods of Intellectual EvolutionTwo Faces of Post-IntellectualismThe Causes: How Things Got Out of ControlInherent Contradictions of IntellectualismThree Underlying DeterminantsThe Transition to Post-IntellectualismThe Real Story of the SixtiesLiving in a Mediated RealityThe Effects: Six Crises of the Twenty-First CenturyDiscarding IndividualismSwapping Materialism for MoralityRejecting ReasonCourting Ecological DisasterEmbracing Tribalism and Religious FundamentalismGiving Up on DemocracySolutions: Several Outlandish ProposalsThe Search for ValuesEducational RestructuringEnvironmental RestorationEconomic ReformGlobal TransformationNotesBibliographyIndex

DONALD N. WOOD is Professor Emeritus, Media Studies, California State University, Northbridge. He is the author of Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy (Praeger, 1996).

• AcknowledgmentsFiguresIntroductionThe Problem: Defining What's WrongA Culture in DisarrayModernism: Defining the Intellectual RootsIntellectualism: Defining the Twin PillarsExploring PostmodernismExploring Post-IntellectualismThree Periods of Intellectual EvolutionTwo Faces of Post-IntellectualismThe Causes: How Things Got Out of ControlInherent Contradictions of IntellectualismThree Underlying DeterminantsThe Transition to Post-IntellectualismThe Real Story of the SixtiesLiving in a Mediated RealityThe Effects: Six Crises of the Twenty-First CenturyDiscarding IndividualismSwapping Materialism for MoralityRejecting ReasonCourting Ecological DisasterEmbracing Tribalism and Religious FundamentalismGiving Up on DemocracySolutions: Several Outlandish ProposalsThe Search for ValuesEducational RestructuringEnvironmental RestorationEconomic ReformGlobal TransformationNotesBibliographyIndex