The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere
Why do so many Americans feel that politics has become irrelevant to their daily lives? Why is there so little public discussion of important social issues, despite unprecedented access to mass media and new communication technologies? This book delves beneath the sound bites and news headlines to explore the ongoing process of depoliticization in the United States. Attuned to the many contemporary trends eroding the public sphere, Carl Boggs illuminates the American retreat to an eerily privatized landscape of shopping malls, gated communities, new-age fads, rural militias, isolated computer terminals, and postmodern intellectual discourse.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-57230-504-5
- EAN: 9781572305045
- Produktnummer: 9695390
- Verlag: Guilford Pubn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 310 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B17.5 cm x D2.3 cm 449 g
- Auflage: Revised.
- Gewicht: 449
Über den Autor
Carl Boggs is the author of numerous books in the fields of contemporary social and political theory, European politics, and popular movements, including The Two Revolutions: Antonio Gramsci and the Dilemmas of Western Marxism (1984), Social Movements and Political Power (1986), Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity (1993), and The Socialist Tradition (1996). He has taught at UCLA, USC, and Washington University in St. Louis. For the past 12 years he has been professor of social sciences at National University in Los Angeles.
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