Daniel J. Boorstin citáty

Daniel Joseph Boorstin byl americký historik, právník, spisovatel a esejista židovského původu. Byl profesorem historie na Univerzitě v Cambridge. Celosvětově proslul především knihou The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America z roku 1962, kde nastolil tezi, že média pokřivují realitu informováním o tzv. pseudoudálostech, tedy událostech, které by se bez existence médií a jejich zájmu nestaly . Termín pseudoudálost se pak stal velmi užívaný v kritice médií, byl však i terčem kritiky ze strany mediálních teoretiků . Boorstin v knize především sledoval, jak se pod vlivem médií obraz události stává mnohem důležitější než událost sama, čímž předjímal pozdější poststrukturalistickou kritiku Jeana Baudrillarda s jeho pojmy hyperrealita či simulakrum. Jeho dalším tématem byly americké dějiny a kultura, za knihu The Americans: The Democratic Experience dostal roku 1974 Pulitzerovu cenu. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. říjen 1914 – 28. únor 2004
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“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.”

Preface
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
Kontext: We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

“These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer.”

Daniel J. Boorstin kniha The Creators

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (1992) (Vintage edition, 1993, ), Preface, p. XV.
Kontext: These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story — a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

A Case of Hypochondria, Newsweek (6 July 1970).

“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.”

As quoted by Barbara Gamarekian in Working Profile: Daniel J. Boorstin. Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/06/specials/boorstin-working.html, The New York Times (July 8, 1983).

“The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.”

This "aphorism" was expressed in different forms by Josh Billings and Socrates. note: Often misquoted as, "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge," and often misattributed to Stephen Hawking.
Zdroj: Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected (1995).

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”

As quoted in Book of Humorous Quotations (1998), by Connie Robertson, p. 29.

“Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio —- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how —- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. … Here at home —- within the family, so to speak —- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.”

Foreword to America and the image of Europe: Reflections on American Thought, Meridian Books, 1960, as cited in: Robert Andrews (1993) The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations https://books.google.com/books?id=4cl5c4T9LWkC&lpg=PA207&dq=Our%20attitude%20toward%20our%20own%20culture%20has%20recently%20been%20characterized%20by%20two%20qualities%2C%20braggadocio%20and%20petulance.&pg=PA207#v=onepage&q&f=false, Columbia University Press, p. 207.

“I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.”

As quoted in Wall Street Journal (31 December 1985) on why he did his writing at home very early in the morning while he served as the Librarian of Congress.

“While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.”

Zdroj: The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948), Ch. 1, part 2: The Economy of Nature, p. 41.

“A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”

Zdroj: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 57.

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