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Culture In The Age Of Three Worlds »

Authors: Michael Denning
ISBN-13: 9781859844496, ISBN-10: 1859844499
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton Client/Verso
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Michael Denning

Michael Denning teaches American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of
Mechanic Accents, Cover Stories, Culture in the Age of Three Worlds, and The Cultural Front.

Book Synopsis

Denning analyses the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture.

1	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Rethinking the Age of Three Worlds
2	Globalization and Culture: Process and Epoch	17
3	A Global Left? Social Movements in the Age of Three Worlds	35
4	The Novelists' International	51
Pt. 2	Working on Culture
5	The Socioanalysis of Culture: Rethinking the Cultural Turn	75
6	The End of Mass Culture	97
7	The Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies	121
8	What's Wrong with Cultural Studies?	147
Pt. 3	The American Ideology: The Age of Three Worlds as the American Century
9	"The Special American Conditions": Marxism and American Studies	169
10	The Peculiarities of the Americans: Reconsidering Democracy in America	192
11	Neither Capitalist Nor American: The Democracy as Social Movement	209
12	A Cultural Front in the Age of Three Worlds?	227
	Notes	235
	Acknowledgments	269
	Index	272