The world turned inside out
Subtitle: American thought and culture at the end of the 20th century
By: James Livingston
Series: American thought and culture; American thought and culture
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780742535411
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: The world elsewhere is not; title: Chronology; title: "From dusk to dawn" : origins and effects of the Reagan revolution; title: "Tenured radicals" in the ivory tower : the great transformation of higher education; title: The creators and constituents of the "postmodern condition"; title: "Signs of signs" : watching the end of modernity at the cineplex; title: "Angels in America" : technologies of desire and recognition; title: The ending of the "American century"; title: Appendix: Their Great Depression and ours.