Well-Tempered Self - Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject

Informationen zum Autor Toby Miller is assistant professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. He has taught at Murdoch and Griffith universities in Australia and has worked as a research officer with the Australian Senate and as an announcer and cultural commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Klappentext Miller argues that capitalism's democratic politics requires selfless, community-minded citizens, while its economics depends on selfish, utilitarian consumers. To fulfil these conflicting needs for political order and economic prosperity, powerful cultural forces are employed to instill a sense of "ethical incompleteness". Citizens are then offered political, cultural and economic opportunities to become better, happier and more fulfilled - opportunities that, in turn, encourage loyalty to both the political and economic systems. In a series of case studies that demonstrate this process, Miller examines mass entertainment, political discourse, and methods of resistance to these powerful cultural forces.

Product details

• Authors: Toby Miller, Toby (Cardiff University) Miller
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.12.1993
• EAN: 9780801846045
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4604-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Parallax; Parallax: Re-Visions of Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)