03142nam 2200649 450 991079425480332120210324153329.01-5017-5243-X1-5017-5245-610.1515/9781501752452(CKB)4100000011508647(OCoLC)1141985386(MdBmJHUP)muse85338(MiAaPQ)EBC6027401(DE-B1597)546016(DE-B1597)9781501752452(StDuBDS)EDZ0002535339(EXLCZ)99410000001150864720210416e20212020 fy| 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIdeal minds raising consciousness in the antisocial seventies /Michael Trask[electronic resource]Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2021.1 online resourceCornell scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2020.1-5017-5244-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Cornell scholarship online.LiteraturePhilosophyNineteen seventiesPhilosophyNeoliberalism in popular cultureLibertarianism in literatureSocial valuesSelf-consciousness (Awareness)Autonomy (Philosophy)Historycults in the seventies, libertarianism after the sixties, idealism in modern society, subjectivity in postmodern american culture.LiteraturePhilosophy.Nineteen seventiesPhilosophy.Neoliberalism in popular culture.Libertarianism in literature.Social values.Self-consciousness (Awareness)Autonomy (Philosophy)History.809.93384Trask Michael1967-1487520StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910794254803321Ideal minds3707414UNINA