The American Bicycle by Jim Hurd

The American Bicycle by Jim Hurd

This book offers a broad-based critical examination of the consequences--moral, psychological, sociological, educational, and economic--of increasing specialization in today's world. According to the author, we have now reached a stage where the education and professional work of both elite and non-elite groups are so narrowly focused as to diminish both the individual and society. The development of the complete individual has given way to the development of a complete collective, made up of narrowly focused, fragmented individuals. And educators--the very people who should be able to lead us out of this path of increasing specalization--have themselves fallen victim, unable to function outside their own specialized areas of expertise. This controversial work will be of interest to scholars and students in social psychology, philosophy, educational foundations, economics, Third World development, and business--in short, to all thinking members of modern society.

JAY PRIDMORE is the author of more than 20 books, many of them about Chicago architecture. His Chicago Architecture and Design (Abrams, 1993, 2005) remains a bestseller in its class. Pridmore's Building Ideas (University of Chicago Press, 2013) examines the rich and unparalleled architectural history of the University of Chicago. He lives near Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9780760300374
ISBN 10	0760300372
Title	The American Bicycle
Author	Jim Hurd
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Year published	1995-10-01
Number of pages	192
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