World Turned Inside Out American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century

Name: World Turned Inside Out American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
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ISBN: 9780742535411

ISBN-10: 074253541X

ISBN-13: 9780742535411

Edition: 2009

Authors: James Livingston

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List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/16/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 226
Size: 6.43" wide x 9.42" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Foreword


Preface: The World Elsewhere Is Not


Acknowledgments


Chronology



"From Dusk to Dawn:" Origins and Effects of the Reagan Revolution


The Supply Side


The Disregard for Capital


Conservatism Old and New


God, Family, Markets


Why Is There Still Socialism in the United States?



"Tenured Radicals" in the Ivory Tower: The Great Transformation of Higher Education


Postindustrial Intellect


From Left to Right, What Is to Be Done?


Race, Class, and Gender


Disuniting America?


Reuniting America?



The Creators and Constituents of the "Postmodern Condition"


The Geographies of the Postmodern


Semiotic Subversion


The Wingspan of Feminism


Gender Trouble


Culture Wars on the Left



"Signs of Signs:" Watching the End of Modernity at the Cineplex


Reading for the Ending


Big Movies, Big Ideas


The Cultural Vicinity of The Matrix


Generic Panic


Experience and Explanation at the Cineplex


Cartoon Politics


Where's Dad?



"Angels in America:" Technologies of Desire and Recognition


Cartoon Politics, Again


Excremental Visions


Apocalypse Now?


The Limit of Realism


Musical Endings


Hip-Hop Nation


The Technologies of Desire



The Ending of the "American Century"


The American Century Revisited


The Economic Logics of Globalization


The Open Door World


Vietnam Syndrome


Another Country in Another Century


Whose Ending?


"Virtual Sanctuaries": Globalization and the New Terrorist Movements


Sympathy for the Devil: The Rationality of Terrorism


Coda: Keep Arguing


Appendix: Their Great Depression and Ours


Bibliographic Essay


Index


About the Author