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- Title
What Went Wrong?: Reappraising the "Politics" of Theory.
- Authors
Keith, Joseph
- Abstract
What went wrong? How to explain the dismal state of today's political landscape in the U.S.--with neoconservatism and free-market triumphalism in such dominance and the left in a state of apparent haplessness? According to Timothy Brennan in Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right, much of the left's trouble can be traced back to the post-Vietnam period of the late seventies. It was during this moment of "reassessment and political fatigue" (x) that the left largely and mistakenly abandoned Marxism and the social democratic politics of the 60s for an identity politics founded on the coalescing...
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States politics &; government; CONSERVATISM; FREE enterprise; WARS of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left &; Right (Book); BRENNAN, Timothy
- Publication
Postmodern Culture, 2007, Vol 18, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
1053-1920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/pmc.0.0009