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Growing Up Postmodern - Neoliberalism and the War on the Young (Paperback)
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Growing Up Postmodern - Neoliberalism and the War on the Young (Paperback)
Series: Culture and Politics Series
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This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing
Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of
the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in
urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech,
racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to
produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult
society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's
enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged
obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and
expressed not through social investment, but through consumption;
the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. But the
power to consume is distributed very unevenly, and even for the
affluent it never fulfills the desire produced by the advertising
industry. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social
conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the
relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education,
harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of
intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on
education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction,
identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for
moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the
logic of global capitalism.
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