05355nam 2200877Ia 450 991046218670332120211102011613.00-8014-6547-81-322-50414-80-8014-6591-510.7591/9780801465918(CKB)2670000000276221(OCoLC)818143179(CaPaEBR)ebrary10618073(SSID)ssj0000755381(PQKBManifestationID)11463304(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755381(PQKBWorkID)10730681(PQKB)11146686(StDuBDS)EDZ0001503453(MiAaPQ)EBC3138392(OCoLC)966819170(MdBmJHUP)muse51938(DE-B1597)478249(OCoLC)961606249(OCoLC)979627848(DE-B1597)9780801465918(Au-PeEL)EBL3138392(CaPaEBR)ebr10618073(CaONFJC)MIL681696(EXLCZ)99267000000027622120120627d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe covert sphere[electronic resource] secrecy, fiction, and the national security state /Timothy MelleyIthaca Cornell University Press20121 online resource (302 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-5123-X 0-8014-7853-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction: The Postmodern Public Sphere --1. Brainwashed! --2. Spectacles of Secrecy --3. False Documents --4. The Work of Art in the Age of Plausible Deniability --5. Postmodern Amnesia --6. The Geopolitical Melodrama --Notes --Works Cited --IndexIn December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four-a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces into something like awed respect. Why would a wartime government spend valuable resources on a melodrama of covert operations? The answer, according to Timothy Melley, is not simply that fiction has real political effects but that, since the Cold War, fiction has become integral to the growth of national security as a concept and a transformation of democracy. In The Covert Sphere, Melley links this cultural shift to the birth of the national security state in 1947. As the United States developed a vast infrastructure of clandestine organizations, it shielded policy from the public sphere and gave rise to a new cultural imaginary, "the covert sphere." One of the surprising consequences of state secrecy is that citizens must rely substantially on fiction to "know," or imagine, their nation's foreign policy. The potent combination of institutional secrecy and public fascination with the secret work of the state was instrumental in fostering the culture of suspicion and uncertainty that has plagued American society ever since-and, Melley argues, that would eventually find its fullest expression in postmodernism. The Covert Sphere traces these consequences from the Korean War through the War on Terror, examining how a regime of psychological operations and covert action has made the conflation of reality and fiction a central feature of both U.S. foreign policy and American culture. Melley interweaves Cold War history with political theory and original readings of films, television dramas, and popular entertainments-from The Manchurian Candidate through 24-as well as influential writing by Margaret Atwood, Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, E. L. Doctorow, Michael Herr, Denis Johnson, Norman Mailer, Tim O'Brien, and many others.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEspionage in literatureLiterature and historyUnited StatesNational securitySocial aspectsUnited StatesPopular culturePolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPopular culturePolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory21st centurySecrecy in literatureSpy stories, AmericanHistory and criticismTerrorism in literatureWorld politics in literatureElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Espionage in literature.Literature and historyNational securitySocial aspectsPopular culturePolitical aspectsHistoryPopular culturePolitical aspectsHistorySecrecy in literature.Spy stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.Terrorism in literature.World politics in literature.813/.087209Melley Timothy1963-1044551MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462186703321The covert sphere2470291UNINA03234nam 22006372 450 991045755330332120151005020624.01-107-14544-91-280-51601-10-511-21518-50-511-21697-10-511-21160-00-511-32729-30-511-49028-30-511-21337-9(CKB)1000000000353623(EBL)266549(OCoLC)171139090(SSID)ssj0000199433(PQKBManifestationID)11188042(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000199433(PQKBWorkID)10196817(PQKB)11537876(UkCbUP)CR9780511490286(MiAaPQ)EBC266549(PPN)183061268(Au-PeEL)EBL266549(CaPaEBR)ebr10131722(CaONFJC)MIL51601(OCoLC)560239693(EXLCZ)99100000000035362320090227d2004|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMax Weber's politics of civil society /Sung Ho Kim[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2004.1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-03656-9 0-521-82057-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-209) and index.Part I. Of 'Sect Man': The Modern Self and Civil Society in Max Weber -- Part II The Protesant Ethic and the spirit of individualism -- Part III. The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Civil Society -- Part IV. Politics, Science, Ethics -- Part V. liberalism, . nationalism, and civil society --Part VI. Max Weber's politics of civil society.This book is an in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society. On the one hand, it reads Weber's ideas from the perspective of modern political thought, rather than the modern social sciences; on the other, it offers a liberal assessment of this complex political thinker without attempting to apologize for his shortcomings. Through an alternative reading of Weber's religious, epistemological and political writings, the book shows Weber's concern with public citizenship in a modern mass democracy and civil society as its cultivating ground. Kim argues Weber's political thought, thus recast, was deeply informed by Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and other German political thinkers and also reveals an affinity to the liberal-republican tradition best represented by Mill and Tocqueville. Kim has effectively resuscitated Weber as a political thinker for our time in which civic virtues and civil society have once again become one of the dominant issues.Civil societyCivil society.300/.1Kim Sung Ho1966 November 9-1046765UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910457553303321Max Weber's politics of civil society2473928UNINA