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Bezig met laden... Age of Fracturedoor Daniel T. Rodgers
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) aegossman | Feb 25, 2015 |  On the other hand, he makes no effort to explain why the ideas that took hold did take hold, so you're left with a few fragmented chapters that aren't connected to each other in any way. He only deals with ideas that took hold of Americans in America, so there's very little context for what's happening. And despite his good analysis, there's very little suggestion that he finds any of these ideas anything other than mildly interesting - how can he *possibly* have written this book without ascending to rage? As one of the most representative pop-culture acts of this time period (and the ideas he describes) could have told him, anger is a gift! This book is too flat too often. It will be a great teaching tool for undergrads - much easier to assign his chapter on 'power' than to get students to read any of the many thinkers he deals with in that chapter - but it's unlikely to teach anyone older than 30 much they haven't already got by osmosis. The conclusion is dull, focusing more on 9/11 than the far more momentous G.F. Crisis. In short: a nice metaphor featuring great description, good analysis, but very much lacking in interpretation (*why* should this age have seen such fracture?), judgment (were any of these ideas any good at all?) and fire. (  ) stillatim | Dec 29, 2013 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more fluid. Flexible markets pushed aside Keynesian macroeconomic structures. Racial and gender solidarity divided into multiple identities; community responsibility shrank to smaller circles. In this wide-ranging narrative, Daniel Rodgers shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. Age of Fracture offers a powerful reinterpretation of the ways in which the decades surrounding the 1980s changed America. Through a contagion of visions and metaphors, on both the intellectual right and the intellectual left, earlier notions of history and society that stressed solidity, collective institutions, and social circumstances gave way to a more individualized human nature that emphasized choice, agency, performance, and desire. On a broad canvas that includes Michel Foucault, Ronald Reagan, Judith Butler, Charles Murray, Jeffrey Sachs, and many more, Rodgers explains how structures of power came to seem less important than market choice and fluid selves. Cutting across the social and political arenas of late-twentieth-century life and thought, from economic theory and the culture wars to disputes over poverty, color-blindness, and sisterhood, Rodgers reveals how our categories of social reality have been fractured and destabilized. As we survey the intellectual wreckage of this war of ideas, we better understand the emergence of our present age of uncertainty. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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