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The World Turned Inside Out
American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
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2009
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 Sixties. The overall argument here is 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 90s.
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 argument goes, the United States was much less conservative than it had been in 1975.
The book takes supply-side economics and South Park equally seriously. It treats Freddy Krueger, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Ronald Reagan as comparable cultural icons.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-3541-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0117-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
204
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface: The World Elsewhere Is Not No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chronology No access
Chapter 01. “From Dusk to Dawn”: Origins and Effects of the Reagan Revolution No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 02. “Tenured Radicals” in theIvory Tower: The Great Transformation of Higher Education No access Pages 21 - 36
Chapter 03. The Creators and Constituents of the “Postmodern Condition” No access Pages 37 - 54
Chapter 04. “Signs of Signs”: Watching the End of Modernity at the Cineplex No access Pages 55 - 78
Chapter 05. “Angels in America”: Technologies of Desire and Recognition No access Pages 79 - 104
Chapter 06. The Ending of the “American Century” No access Pages 105 - 132
Coda: Keep Arguing No access Pages 133 - 136
Appendix: Their Great Depression and Ours No access Pages 137 - 152
