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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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.