Public-private relations in totalitarian states
By: Gabriel A. Barhaim
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781412842600
Subjects: Politics and culture; Totalitarianism; Social structure
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Popular culture: a conception of a vulnerable social order; title: Global culture: the quest for world self-emancipation: prospects and difficulties; title: Media charisma and global culture: the experience of east-central Europe; title: Anomie and the crisis of the ritual: the emerging of the spectacle; title: Rituals of political purification in east-central Europe after the fall of communism; title: The exposure of private sphere to public moralities and the conditions favoring conformism; title: The public sphere as a meta-network space; title: The imbalance in public/private relations in totalitarian states and the ensuing cultural resistance.