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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794254803321

Autore

Trask Michael <1967->

Titolo

Ideal minds : raising consciousness in the antisocial seventies / / Michael Trask [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5243-X

1-5017-5245-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

809.93384

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Nineteen seventies - Philosophy

Neoliberalism in popular culture

Libertarianism in literature

Social values

Self-consciousness (Awareness)

Autonomy (Philosophy) - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: From Consciousness Raising to Neo-Idealism -- Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Meritocracy -- Radical Ecology's Mindfulness -- That Seventies Cult -- Millennial America and the World to Come -- Afterword: The Marketization of Everything.

Sommario/riassunto

Following the 1960s, the decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. This book presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the intellectual landscape of the 1970s who share a commitment to what the book calls 'neo-idealism' as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews.