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

Informationen zum Autor By James Livingston Klappentext The World Turned Inside Out explores American thought and culture in the formative moment of the late twentieth century in the aftermath of the fabled Sixties. The overall argument here is that the tendencies and sensibilities we associate with that earlier moment of upheaval decisively shaped intellectual agendas and cultural practices-from the all-volunteer Army to the cartoon politics of Disney movies-in the 1980s and 90s. By this accounting, the so-called Reagan Revolution was not only, or even mainly, a conservative event. By the same accounting, the Left, having seized the commanding heights of higher education, was never in danger of losing the so-called culture wars. At the end of the twentieth century, the argument goes, the United States was much less conservative than it had been in 1975. The book takes supply-side economics and South Park equally seriously. It treats Freddy Krueger, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Ronald Reagan as comparable cultural icons. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordPreface: The World Elsewhere is NotChapter 1: "From Dusk to Dawn": Origins and Effects of the Reagan RevolutionChapter 2: "Tenured Radicals" in the Ivory Tower/The Great Transformation of Higher EducationChapter 3: The Creators and Constituents of the "Postmodern Condition"Chapter 4: "Signs of Signs": Watching the "End of Modernity" at the CineplexChapter 5: "Angels in America": Technologies of Desire and RecognitionChapter 6: The Ending of the "American Century"Coda: Keep ArguingAppendix: Their Great Depression and OursBibliographic Essay

Product details

• Authors: James Livingston
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2009
• EAN: 9780742535411
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-3541-1
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: American Thought and Culture; American Thought and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas