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Age of Fracture (Paperback)
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Age of Fracture (Paperback)
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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, Daniel T. Rodgers shows how the collective
purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged
and uncertain. Age of Fracture offers a powerful 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, Rodgers 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, Rodgers
reveals how our categories of social reality have been fractured
and destabilized. As we survey the intellectual wreckage of this
war of ideas, we better understand the emergence of our present age
of uncertainty.
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