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Primitive America : the ideology of capitalist democracy /

For cultural critic Paul Smith, the tension between progressive and primitive is a constitutive condition of American history and culture. In Primitive America, Smith contemplates this primary contradiction as it has played out in the years since 9/11. An urgent and important engagement with current...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Paul, 1954 November 23-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preamble
  • "We" and "you"
  • Dialectics
  • Freedom, equality, democracy
  • Love and contradiction
  • What is not allowed to be said
  • Narcissistic symbols
  • Narcissistic refraction
  • Subject of value
  • Historical fictions
  • Primitive
  • Fetishism
  • Atavism
  • Primitive accumulation
  • Imperial power
  • Meaningless politics
  • Ideologues
  • Fascism
  • Legal matters
  • Animals
  • Human rights
  • Precarious politics.