04773nam 2200961 a 450 991078619470332120230120055711.00-8232-4559-40-8232-5253-10-8232-5035-010.1515/9780823245598(CKB)2670000000275476(EBL)3239758(SSID)ssj0000756417(PQKBManifestationID)11440224(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756417(PQKBWorkID)10750301(PQKB)11642700(StDuBDS)EDZ0000124823(OCoLC)820632016(MdBmJHUP)muse19490(DE-B1597)555040(DE-B1597)9780823245598(Au-PeEL)EBL3239758(CaPaEBR)ebr10611574(OCoLC)923764049(Au-PeEL)EBL4704523(CaONFJC)MIL818159(MiAaPQ)EBC3239758(MiAaPQ)EBC2121288(MiAaPQ)EBC4704523(EXLCZ)99267000000027547620120717d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe naked communist[electronic resource] Cold War modernism and the politics of popular culture /Roland Végső1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20131 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-4557-8 0-8232-4556-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I. Anti-Communist Politics -- The Aesthetic Unconscious -- Anti-Communist Politics and the Limits of Representation -- The Enemy, the Secret, and the Catastrophe -- Anti-Communist Aesthetic Ideology -- Part II. Anti-Communist Fiction -- One World : Nuclear Holocausts -- Two Worlds : Stolen Secrets -- Three Worlds : Global Enemies.The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the “world” names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation. The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950's. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti- Communist “aesthetic ideology.” The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950's (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program.Anti-communist movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAnti-communist movementsUnited StatesPhilosophyCold WarPolitical aspectsUnited StatesPopular culturePolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAestheticsPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAnti-communist movements in literatureCold War in literatureAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismUnited StatesPolitics and government1945-1989United StatesIntellectual life20th centuryAesthetic Ideology.Anti-Communism.Catastrophe.Cold War.Enemy.Modernism.Popular fiction.Secrecy.Anti-communist movementsHistoryAnti-communist movementsPhilosophy.Cold WarPolitical aspectsPopular culturePolitical aspectsHistoryAestheticsPolitical aspectsHistoryAnti-communist movements in literature.Cold War in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.973.91Végső Roland1049864MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786194703321The naked communist3724549UNINA