Ideal minds : raising consciousness in the antisocial seventies / Michael Trask.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trask, Michael, 1967- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Nineteen seventies--Philosophy.

Nineteen seventies.

Neoliberalism in popular culture.

Libertarianism in literature.

Social values.

Self-consciousness (Awareness).

Autonomy (Philosophy)--History.

Autonomy (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Following the 1960s, the decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. This book presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the intellectual landscape of the 1970s who share a commitment to what the book calls 'neo-idealism' as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews.

Contents:

Introduction: From Consciousness Raising to Neo-Idealism

Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Meritocracy

Radical Ecology's Mindfulness

That Seventies Cult

Millennial America and the World to Come

Afterword: The Marketization of Everything.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501752438

150175243X

9781501752452

1501752456

OCLC:

1141985386