Everybody Knows: Cynicism in AmericaU of Minnesota Press, 1978 |
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... reasons that become clearer as one better understands cynicism , Dionne's favored remedies , among them an insistence on policy solutions and rebuilding a viable commitment to a pub- lic good , are not as responsive to rampant cynicism ...
... reasons that become clearer as one better understands cynicism , Dionne's favored remedies , among them an insistence on policy solutions and rebuilding a viable commitment to a pub- lic good , are not as responsive to rampant cynicism ...
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... Reason Most of us remember the tale of Diogenes , the original cynic , hold- ing a lit lantern aloft as he walked the sunlit streets of Athens , telling curious onlookers that he was searching for an honest man . Diogenes complained ...
... Reason Most of us remember the tale of Diogenes , the original cynic , hold- ing a lit lantern aloft as he walked the sunlit streets of Athens , telling curious onlookers that he was searching for an honest man . Diogenes complained ...
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... reasons for various values and moral com- mitments . The cynic is prepared in advance to laugh off this ad- vice . It is stunning that we arrive at this crisis of cynicism so ill equipped to confront actual cynics . Cynicism carries its ...
... reasons for various values and moral com- mitments . The cynic is prepared in advance to laugh off this ad- vice . It is stunning that we arrive at this crisis of cynicism so ill equipped to confront actual cynics . Cynicism carries its ...
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... reason : the objects of a cynic's contempt might richly deserve such a response . American political structures long have been set up for the current cynical outbreak . From the beginnings of modern Western democracy , in- tricate ...
... reason : the objects of a cynic's contempt might richly deserve such a response . American political structures long have been set up for the current cynical outbreak . From the beginnings of modern Western democracy , in- tricate ...
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... reasons for its ne- cessity . The circularity is powerful . Cynicism covers our political and social arrangements like a blanket or , as Ken Kesey called it , a " fog . " Too savvy to be painted into a corner by charges that they have ...
... reasons for its ne- cessity . The circularity is powerful . Cynicism covers our political and social arrangements like a blanket or , as Ken Kesey called it , a " fog . " Too savvy to be painted into a corner by charges that they have ...
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The Values Remedy Community Civility and Belief | 15 |
CynicsinPower Manipulations Lies and Empty Gestures | 27 |
Wig Cynics American Antipolitics and Its Uses | 41 |
Cultural Crisis | 55 |
A Brief History of American Cynicism | 57 |
Federalists and Liberals Setting the Stage for Cynicism | 71 |
Why Americans Hate Politics The Cynicism Trap | 85 |
The Age of Resentment Advanced Applied Cynicism | 143 |
Alternatives | 155 |
Marge the Stoic The Coens Fargo and Civic Solutions | 157 |
So What? Another Side of Cynicism | 171 |
Teachings of the Demonstration Representation in the Streets | 185 |
Politics after Cynicism | 201 |
Solutions and Conclusions | 213 |
Notes | 227 |
Medium Media Mediate Television and Cynicism | 101 |
Bush Burned The Patterns of Televised Politics | 115 |
The Uses of Backlash Applied Cynicism 101 | 129 |
Index | 237 |
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