Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle

"Ms. DeJean's advice to universities is reassuring--first, in that they should still be thought to have a say in anything at all, and second, because her message is one of recognizable Enlightenment tolerance. Even so, people who can spell will go on groaning at advertising, the invasion of privacy, cheap journalism, electronic chatter, ghosted books, information without understanding, the impoverishment of language by the rampant image, 500 television channels, instant everything, political correctness and, not least, management. Everything is going to the dogs. Don't believe me: just ask any 50-year-old taxi driver. Or for a better answer, you could read this book."Joan DeJean is the author of 'Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle', published 1997 under ISBN 9780226141374 and ISBN 0226141373.