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First publish date: 1999
Authors: Neil Postman
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Neil Postman contends that television’s pervasive presence in homes exposes children prematurely to adult ideas, undermining their capacity for abstract thought and eroding the very notion of childhood.

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Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English.

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