Workers of the World, Enjoy! - Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to Global Justice

Klappentext Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr. is Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College, and author of Classical Social Theory: A Contemporary Approach, Anthony Giddens and Modern Social Theory, French Revolutionary Syndicalismand the Public Sphere, and (with Barbara Tucker) Industrializing Antebellum America. Zusammenfassung The rise of the public sphere! as chronicled by social movements spanning the nineteenth! twentieth! and twenty-first centuries Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS 1. Public Life! Aesthetics! and Social Theory; 2. Social Movements and Aesthetic Politics; 3. Identity! Knowledge! Solidarity! and Aesthetic Politics PART II: HISTORY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 4. The World is a Stage and Life is a Carnival: The Rise of the Aesthetic Sphere and Popular Culture; 5. Labor and Aesthetic Politics: French Revolutionary Syndicalism! the IWW! and Fascism; 6. The Flowering of Aesthetic Politics: May 1968! The New Social Movements! and the Global Justice Movement Conclusion

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• Authors: Kenneth H. Tucker
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2012
• EAN: 9781592137657
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-765-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Politics, History, & Social Change; Politics History & Social Chan; Politics, History, & Social Ch; Politics History & Social Chan; Politics, History, & Social Ch
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas