Growing up Postmodern Neoliberalism and the War on the Young |
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| Editor:
| Strickland, Ronald |
| Contribution by:
| Drake, Jennifer
Giroux, Henry A.
Henderson, Margaret
Hubler, Angela E.
Jones, David M.
Kleinfeld, Elizabeth
Kurtz, Andrew
Osgerby, Bill
Phillips, Jerry
Scheie, Tim
Smith, Gary L.
Taylor, Astra |
| Series title: | Culture and Politics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7425-1650-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2002 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $154.00 |
Book Description:
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This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's
Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime,...
More DescriptionThis collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.