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Primitive America : the ideology of capitalist democracy / Paul Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Paul, 1954 November 23-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--United States.
- Capitalism.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Ideology of capitalist democracy
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For cultural critic Paul Smith, the tension between progressive and primitive is a constitutive condition of American history and culture. In Primitive America, Smith contemplates this primary contradiction as it has played out in the years since 9/11. An urgent and important engagement with current American policies and practices, Primitive America is, at the same time, an incisive critique of the ideology that fuels the ethos of America's capitalist culture.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Preamble
- "We" and "you"
- Dialectics
- Freedom, equality, democracy
- Love and contradiction
- What is not allowed to be said
- Narcissistic symbols
- Narcissistic refraction
- Subject of value
- Historical fictions
- Primitive
- Fetishism
- Atavism
- Primitive accumulation
- Imperial power
- Meaningless politics
- Ideologues
- Fascism
- Legal matters
- Animals
- Human rights
- Precarious politics
- Acknowledgments
- Works cited.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-132) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5425-5
- OCLC:
- 476140713
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