Title Age of fracture / Daniel T. Rodgers

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages) Contents Losing the words of the Cold War -- The rediscovery of the market -- The search for power -- Race and social memory -- Gender and certainty -- The little platoons of society -- Wrinkles in time Summary In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more fluid. Flexible markets pushed aside Keynesian macroeconomic structures. Racial and gender solidarity divided into multiple identities; community responsibility shrank to smaller circles. In this wide-ranging narrative, the author shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. This book offers a reinterpretation of the ways in which the decades surrounding the 1980s changed America. Through a contagion of visions and metaphors, on both the intellectual right and the intellectual left, earlier notions of history and society that stressed solidity, collective institutions, and social circumstances gave way to a more individualized human nature that emphasized choice, agency, performance, and desire. On a broad canvas that includes Michel Foucault, Ronald Reagan, Judith Butler, Charles Murray, Jeffrey Sachs, and many more, the author explains how structures of power came to seem less important than market choice and fluid selves. Cutting across the social and political arenas of late-twentieth-century life and thought, from economic theory and the culture wars to disputes over poverty, color-blindness, and sisterhood, the author reveals how our categories of social reality have been fractured and destabilized Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Bancroft Prize, 2012 SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd Subject Culture conflict -- United States -- History -- 20th century Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century Individualism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century HISTORY. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. History. Civilization Culture conflict Economic history Individualism Intellectual life Political culture Politics and culture Popular culture Social conditions Kulturelle Identität Geistesleben Politische Kultur Individualisierung Kulturelle Identität. Geschlechterrolle. Politische Kultur. Individualisierung. Geistesleben. Wirtschaftssystem. SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 1970- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139948 United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140520 United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020 United States -- Economic conditions -- 1971-1981. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140026 United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140027 United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367 Subject United States USA. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674059528 0674059522

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