LEADER 04012nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910807358803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-3905-9 010 $a1-4416-3159-3 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814739051 035 $a(CKB)1000000000817817 035 $a(EBL)865528 035 $a(OCoLC)779828115 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000339756 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11274402 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339756 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10364722 035 $a(PQKB)11119882 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326149 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865528 035 $a(OCoLC)488594239 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10766 035 $a(DE-B1597)548322 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814739051 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865528 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10347233 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000817817 100 $a20090618d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Left at war /$fMichael Berube 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (350 p.) 225 0 $aCultural Front ;$v17 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-9985-X 311 $a0-8147-9984-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1 Nowhere Left to Go --$t2 Root Causes --$t3 Iraq --$t4 Cultural Studies and Political Crisis --$t5 What Is This ?Cultural? in Cultural Studies? --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThe terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush?s belligerent response fractured the American left?partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier. In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Bérubé revisits and reinterprets the major intellectual debates and key players of the last two decades, covering the terrain of left debates in the United States over foreign policy from the Balkans to 9/11 to Iraq, and over domestic policy from the culture wars of the 1990's to the question of what (if anything) is the matter with Kansas. The Left at War brings the history of cultural studies to bear on the present crisis?a history now trivialized to the point at which few left intellectuals have any sense that merely "cultural" studies could have something substantial to offer to the world of international relations, debates over sovereignty and humanitarian intervention, matters of war and peace. The surprising results of Bérubé?s arguments reveal an American left that is overly fond of a form of "countercultural" politics in which popular success is understood as a sign of political failure and political marginality is understood as a sign of moral virtue. The Left at War insists that, in contrast to American countercultural traditions, the geopolitical history of cultural studies has much to teach us about internationalism?for "in order to think globally, we need to think culturally, and in order to understand cultural conflict, we need to think globally." At a time when America finds itself at a critical crossroads, The Left at War is an indispensable guide to the divisions that have created a left at war with itself. 410 0$aCultural front (Series) 606 $aRadicalism$zUnited States 606 $aPolitics and culture$zUnited States 606 $aRight and left (Political science) 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1989- 615 0$aRadicalism 615 0$aPolitics and culture 615 0$aRight and left (Political science) 676 $a335.020973 700 $aBerube$b Michael$f1961-$00 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807358803321 996 $aThe Left at war$94090245 997 $aUNINA