Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 American policies and practices, Primitive America is, at the same time, an incisive critique of the ideology that fuels the ethos of America's capitalist culture.
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Title
Primitive America.
International Standard Book Number
0816628262
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Ideology of capitalist democracy
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Capitalism-- United States.
Democracy-- United States.
Capitalism.
Civilization.
Democracy.
HISTORY-- State & Local-- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- American Government-- General.