The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century 9781282480568, 1282480561, 9781442201170, 1442201177

This book explores American thought and culture in the formative moment of the late 20th century, in the aftermath of th

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The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
 9781282480568, 1282480561, 9781442201170, 1442201177

Table of contents :
Preface: The world elsewhere is not --
Chronology --
"From dusk to dawn" : origins and effects of the Reagan revolution --
"Tenured radicals" in the ivory tower : the great transformation of higher education --
The creators and constituents of the "postmodern condition" --
"Signs of signs" : watching the end of modernity at the cineplex --
"Angels in America" : technologies of desire and recognition --
The ending of the "American century" --
Appendix: Their Great Depression and ours.

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