Everybody Knows: Cynicism in AmericaU of Minnesota Press, 1978 |
Из књиге
Резултати 1-5 од 62
Страница xii
... social fabric . Americans are cynics . That diagnosis of America's social ills , seldom heard before the tumul- tuous 1960s and 1970s , has become obvious . Cynicism pops up constantly as description and explanation . The appeal of the ...
... social fabric . Americans are cynics . That diagnosis of America's social ills , seldom heard before the tumul- tuous 1960s and 1970s , has become obvious . Cynicism pops up constantly as description and explanation . The appeal of the ...
Страница xv
... social movement , from the left or the right , has its jesters , wordsmiths , and lead singers — its engaging cynics . It is not at all obvious that we would be better off without them . Call it a " good cynicism , " a successor to ...
... social movement , from the left or the right , has its jesters , wordsmiths , and lead singers — its engaging cynics . It is not at all obvious that we would be better off without them . Call it a " good cynicism , " a successor to ...
Страница xvi
... social theory into broader terms than those sometimes used by academic specialists . Still other chapters take on the logic and practice of American politics from an angle closer to history or political science . No single explanatory ...
... social theory into broader terms than those sometimes used by academic specialists . Still other chapters take on the logic and practice of American politics from an angle closer to history or political science . No single explanatory ...
Страница xvii
... social types , but television has been changing both itself and its audience at a rapid pace . The way television interacts with audiences is a key to the development and persistence of cynicism . Chapters 10 and 11 examine political ...
... social types , but television has been changing both itself and its audience at a rapid pace . The way television interacts with audiences is a key to the development and persistence of cynicism . Chapters 10 and 11 examine political ...
Страница 4
... social truth . His most cogent criticisms targeted philosophers and those in power . The contemporary scholar who best interprets Diogenes ' legacy , Peter Sloterdijk , notes that Diogenes initiated " resistance against the rigged game ...
... social truth . His most cogent criticisms targeted philosophers and those in power . The contemporary scholar who best interprets Diogenes ' legacy , Peter Sloterdijk , notes that Diogenes initiated " resistance against the rigged game ...
Садржај
3 | |
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 |
Друга издања - Прикажи све
Чести термини и фразе
activists American cynicism American politics Americans Hate Politics argument backlash become believer Bill Clinton Bush Bush's campaign candidate Chapter character citizens civic belief civility coalition Coens commitment communitarian conspiracy contemporary critics cyni debate demo democracy democratic demonstration Dick Morris Diogenes Dionne Dionne's E. J. Dionne effect election elite Faludi Fargo Gingrich Gulf War Hoover ideology institutions issue James Carville Joel Coen joke journalists Kathleen Hall Jamieson kynic leaders liberal Limbaugh live Madison mainstream manipulation Marge Mencken ment militia moral movement Murphy Brown Nightline Nixon paradox partisan Perot persistent Peter Sloterdijk polls popular powerful cynics President problem protest Quayle Quayle's Reagan remedies Republican resentment response rhetoric role Ross Perot sense Sloterdijk social society solutions speech stoic stoicism story strategy talk television television's tion turn understand values viewers wig cynicism Willie Horton York
Популарни одломци
Страница 73 - By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Страница 75 - A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending...
Страница 75 - So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
Страница 74 - Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
Страница 74 - There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: The one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
Страница 35 - Let the jury consider their verdict," the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. " No, no! " said the Queen. " Sentence first — verdict afterwards.
Страница 75 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
Страница 130 - It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.