The twilight of common dreams : why America is wracked by culture wars /
In The Twilight of Common Dreams, Todd Gitlin places the debates of the moment in a sweeping historical context and - sparing no sides - he argues that these highly charged conflicts are a sideshow, obscuring a seismic transformation in American political life. The Left, which once stood for univers...
| Основен автор: | Gitlin, Todd. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Metropolitan Books,
1995.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis |
Съдържание:
- I. The problem. [Pt.] 1. A dubious battle in Oakland
- II. The exhaustion of commonality. [Pt.] 2. "A prodigious amalgam." The dream, the pot, and the popular front ; Red blood, green lawns, and the grand creed ; The Vietnam crackup and the "anti-American" Left ; The Reagan restoration ; Nothing fails like success
- [Pt.] 3. The fragmentation of the idea of the left. United humanity and the United States ; From a theory to end all classes to a theology without God ; The New Left and the search for surrogate universals
- III. The aggrandizement of difference. [Pt.] 4. The coloring of America?
- [Pt.] 5. Marching on the English department while the right took the White House. The cant of identity ; The beauty and power of blackness ; The ethnic multiplication ; The separatist impulse ; Culture as surrogate politics, campus as surrogate world ; The profusion of identities
- [Pt.] 6. The recoil. The scarlet letters ; The selectivity of media obsessions ; The right turn ; Another dubious battle
- [Pt.] 7. Where we're coming from. Blinded identities ; The shadowed Enlightenment
- IV. The poignancy of multiculturalism. [Pt.] 8. The fate of the commons.