Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
As the 1920s came to a close, Lippmann had abandoned most of his progressive shibboleths and had come to understand the great emancipation brought about by science, technology, and intellectual transformations as a particularly dangerous episode in western civilization. The liberation of the many in the great democratic transformation of the modern era did not promise wisdom or the triumph of reason. The rise of science, and particularly of social science, did not prepare the way for an age of objective knowledge and dispassionate debate. In an age of almost unprecedented personal liberty, the dissolution of inherited forms of authority did not guarantee that the individual will long be free from the majority.
Recommended Citation
McAllister, Ted, "A Dreadful Emancipation: Walter Lippmann’s Critique of Modernity" (2011). Pepperdine University, School of Public Policy Working Papers. Paper 18.
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/sppworkingpapers/18
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