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Daniel Joseph Boorstin è stato uno storico, docente e saggista statunitense, nominato Librarian of Congress per il Congresso degli Stati Uniti d'America dal 1975 al 1987 dal presidente Gerald Ford. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Ottobre 1914 – 28. Febbraio 2004
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Daniel Joseph Boorstin: Frasi in inglese

“The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.”

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Daniel J. Boorstin

Origine: The Republic of Technology (1978), p. 9.

“The image, more interesting than its original, has become the original. The shadow has become the substance.”

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Origine: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 204.

“These pseudo‑events which flood our consciousness must be distinguished from propaganda. The two do have some characteristics in common. But our peculiar problems come from the fact that pseudo‑events are in some respects the op­posite of the propaganda which rules totalitarian countries. Propaganda — as prescribed, say, by Hitler in Mein Kampf — is information intentionally biased. Its effect depends pri­marily on its emotional appeal. While a pseudo‑event is an ambiguous truth, propaganda is an appealing falsehood. Pseudo‑events thrive on our honest desire to be informed, to have “all the facts,” and even to have more facts than there really are.”

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Origine: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 34.

“The cities of Italy are now deluged with droves of these creatures [tour groups], for they never separate, and you see them, forty in number, pouring along a street with their director — now in front, now at the rear, circling them like a sheep dog — and really the process is as like herding as may be.”

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Daniel J. Boorstin

Charles James Lever, Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men and Women and Other Things in General (Blackwood's Magazine, 1864-1865): "Continental Excursionists" [Adamant Media Corporation, 2001, ISBN 0-543-90729-5</small>], p. 243. Quoted by Boorstin in The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961) [Vintage edition, 1992, <small>ISBN 0-679-74180-1], Ch. 3: From Traveler to Tourist: The Lost Art of Travel, p. 88.
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“A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.”

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Origine: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 220.

“In the age of pseudo‑events it is less the artificial sim­plification than the artificial complication of experience that confuses us. Whenever in the public mind a pseudo‑event competes for attention with a spontaneous event in the same field, the pseudo‑event will tend to dominate. What happens on television will overshadow what happens off television.”

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Origine: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 39.

“Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.”

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Origine: The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948), Ch. 4, Part 1: Natural History and Political Science, p. 178.

“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”

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Origine: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 48.

“The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.”

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Daniel J. Boorstin libro The Discoverers

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, Random House, 1983, p. 86.

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