The end of politics : corporate power and the decline of the public sphere /
"In The End of Politics, Carl Boggs delves beneath the sound bites and news headlines to explore the ongoing process of depoliticization in the United States. This book provides a panoramic view of our political, economic, cultural, and technological scene. Attuned to the many contemporary tren...
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New York :
Guilford Press,
©2000.
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Series: | Critical perspectives (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- Sex Scandal and Political Entropy
- The Age of Corporate Colonization
- The Logic of Antipolitics
- Capitalism versus Democracy
- American Exceptionalism Revisited
- Dimensions of the Problem
- The Depoliticized Society
- The Party System as Facade
- Citizenship in Decline
- Max Weber Meets Thomas Hobbes
- Social Crisis and Political Decay
- Liberalism in Disarray
- The Shrinking Public Sphere
- Assessing the Damage
- The Incorporated Debates
- Corporate Expansion and Political Decline
- The New Corporate Polity
- Commodification of the Public Sphere
- The Solidification of Elite Power
- Rise and Decline of the Public Sphere
- Economic Globalization: Order and Chaos
- The Tradition of Political Discourse
- Modernity: A Dual Legacy
- Liberalism, Marxism, and Beyond
- Antipolitics Left and Right
- The 1960s: Politics Affirmed and Sublimated
- The Rebellion against "Big Government"
- Warrior Dreams-and Nightmares
- The New Outlaw Hero
- Terrorism as Social Catharsis
- Politics and Antipolitics on the Right
- A Prelude to Fascism?
- The Authoritarian Impasse
- Political Power and Its Discontents
- Utopianism in the New Age
- The Therapeutic Revolution: Alienation Depoliticized
- Localism and the Enclave Culture
- The Urban Rebellion: Beyond Politics?
- Deep Ecology: From Politics to Nature
- Neither Movement nor Party
- The Postmodern Impasse
- The Crisis of Modernity
- The Postmodern as Postpolitical
- The Predicament of Social Movements
- The Identity Maze.