The World Turned Inside Out
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Table of Contents:
.cs95E872D0{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } Foreword Preface: The World Elsewhere is Not Chapter 1: "From Dusk to Dawn": Origins and Effects of the Reagan Revolution Chapter 2: "Tenured Radicals" in the Ivory Tower/The Great Transformation of Higher Education Chapter 3: The Creators and Constituents of the "Postmodern Condition" Chapter 4: "Signs of Signs": Watching the "End of Modernity" at the Cineplex Chapter 5: "Angels in America": Technologies of Desire and Recognition Chapter 6: The Ending of the "American Century" Coda: Keep Arguing Appendix: Their Great Depression and Ours Bibliographic Essay

About the Author :
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.cs95E872D0{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .csA62DFD6A{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; } Written in a sprightly, punchy, and thoroughly enjoyable style that wears its considerable learning lightly, The World Turned Inside Out presents a fair and scrupulous presentation of a panoply of contemporary thought from leading neoconservative thinkers to academic feminists and popular culture. -- Posnock, Ross .csC583D0C8{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:12pt 0pt 12pt 0pt} .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } At the heart of James Livingston's new book lies a powerful discovery of correspondence between the world imagined by radical academics and the world experienced in extreme reaches of popular culture, in horror and sci-fi films, and heavy metal rock music. One of the most gifted and original of his generation of American historians, Livingston is at ease parsing the discourses of political economy and cultural theory, and equally so in analyzing music and popular song. An argument on behalf of a number of surprising cases--the nation more liberal after Reagan than before?--the book impressively presents itself as a model of historical thinking and analysis. It's a brilliant piece of work. -- Trachtenberg, Alan Livingston presents a stunning display of scholarly discourse, drawing provocative conclusions about where America has been and where it might be going. Booklist How refreshing that a distinguished intellectual historian has chosen to emphasize popular culture! ... Moving beyond the hackneyed arguments between 'sixtophobes' and 'sixtophiles,' the author argues cogently that what once had been a feminist slogan--the personal is the political--became the enduring legacy of the late-20th-century cultural revolution. Highly recommended. Choice A major historian offers a scintillating analysis that will help all students of American literature think about why cartoons may prove the great art of our time. -- Arac, Jonathan If you pick up this book, you will not be bored. And you certainly will not stop arguing. History News Network .cs7CED571B{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .csA62DFD6A{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; } To people like myself who came of age during the sixties, the period that followed seemed like a gray epilogue to that colorful decade. But Jim Livingston's book, The World Turned Inside Out, has convinced me otherwise. It's one of the first things I have read that really makes sense of the cultural and political changes of the last forty years--and does so in a vivid, energetic prose. I recommend it to anyone interested in what we Americans are all about. -- Judis, John B.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781442201170
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
  • ISBN-10: 1442201177
  • Publisher Date: 16 Dec 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: American Thought and Culture


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