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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150445503321

Autore

Swanger Joanna

Titolo

Radical Social Change in the United States : Badiou's Apostle and the Post-Factual Moment / / by Joanna Swanger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-39981-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 328 p.)

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political science

America - Politics and government

Social structure

Equality

Human rights

Political Theory

American Politics

Political Science

Social Structure

Human Rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Paul: Patron Saint of the Post-Factual  -- The Lure of the Ancient Regime  -- Nothing But The Truth  -- Nothing Cures Malaise Quite Like Torture  -- To Have Seen Too Much: The 1960s and the Turning of the Camera  -- Now What?.

Sommario/riassunto

This book tackles the question of why the United States is so resistant to radical change towards economic justice and peace. Taking full stock of the despair that launched the popular support for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, Swanger historicizes the political paralysis of post-1974 United States that deepened already severe economic inequalities, asking how the terrain for social movements in the early twenty-first-century US differs from that of the 1960s. This terrain is marked by the entrenchment of neoliberalism, anti-intellectualism, and difficulties



paradoxically posed by the ease of social media. Activists now must contend with a paralyzing “post-factual” moment. Alain Badiou’s thought informs this book on breaking through contemporary political paralysis. .