The World Turned Inside Out

American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century

By:

James Livingston

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Series:

American Thought and Culture

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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.

Author Biography:

James Livingston is professor of history at Rutgers University. He is the author of, most recently, Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940 and Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History.

Release date Australia

December 19th, 2011

Author

James Livingston

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

226

Series

American Thought and Culture

Dimensions

155x231x13

ISBN-13

9780742535428

Product ID

18396456

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