Cultural democracy
Subtitle: politics, media, new technology
By: David Trend.
Series: SUNY Series,Interruptions: Border Testimony(ies) & Criticism
Publisher: State Univ.New York P.
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Democracy -- United States.; Politics and culture -- United States.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Description: Following the work of a range of public intellectuals like Stanley Aronowitz, Henry Giroux, bell hooks, Chantal Mouffe, and Cornel West, Cultural Democracy argues for a "radical democracy" capable of subverting traditional divisions of "left" and "right." In so doing, Trend suggests that solutions to contemporary cultural and political problems are not so far away as one might think. Their roots lie in the very democratic principles upon which the U.

S. was founded, although many such principles need to be brought up to date and radicalized.