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The world turned inside out : American thought and culture at the end of the 20th century / James Livingston.
Van Pelt Library E169.12 .L558 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Livingston, James, 1949-
- Series:
- American thought and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Political culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Social change--United States--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 181 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2010]
- Summary:
- 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 1960s. James Livingston argues 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 1990s.
- 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 United States was much less conservative than it had been in 1975.
- Contents:
- Preface: The world elsewhere is not
- Chronology
- "From dusk to dawn" : origins and effects of the Reagan revolution
- "Tenured radicals" in the ivory tower : the great transformation of higher education
- The creators and constituents of the "postmodern condition"
- "Signs of signs" : watching the end of modernity at the cineplex
- "Angels in America" : technologies of desire and recognition
- The ending of the "American century"
- Appendix: Their Great Depression and ours.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780742535411
- 074253541X
- 9781442201170
- 1442201177
- OCLC:
- 421147972
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