Eric Cheyfitz

The Disinformation Age (eBook, ePUB)

The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the disconnect between political language and political reality in the United States in the post-Great Recession era of social, political, economic and environmental crisis. It argues that this crisis has called into question the ideology of "American exceptionalism," and outlines a more sustainable and democratic alternative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351839075
• Artikelnr.: 47954349

Autorenporträt

Eric Cheyfitz is the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Disinformation: The End of Ideology
2. Narratives of the Nation
3. The Palimpsest of History: William Apess's Anti-Jeremiad Jeremiad
4. The End of Innocence: Jeremiah Wright's Anti-Jeremiad Jeremiad
5. Barack Obama and the Erasure of Race
6. The Confidence State
7. Melville's The Confidence Man: His Masquerade
8. Thinking from a Different Place: What is a Just Society? A Brief
Manifesto