The end of politics : corporate power and the decline of the public sphere
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The end of politics : corporate power and the decline of the public sphere
（Critical perspectives）
Guilford Press, c2000
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Includes bibliographical notes (p. 284-299) and index
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Description
Why do so many Americans feel that politics has become irrelevant to their daily lives? Why is there so little public discussion of important social issues, despite unprecedented access to mass media and new communication technologies? This book delves beneath the sound bites and news headlines to explore the ongoing process of depoliticization in the United States. Attuned to the many contemporary trends eroding the public sphere, Carl Boggs illuminates the American retreat to an eerily privatized landscape of shopping malls, gated communities, new-age fads, rural militias, isolated computer terminals, and postmodern intellectual discourse. Yet Boggs maintains hope that current trends can be reversed, issuing an eloquent call for revitalizing politics, culture, and civic society. The paperback concludes with a new postscript on the movement against corporate globalization and the tumultuous presidential election of 2000.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Depoliticized Society
2. Social Crisis and Political Decay
3. Corporate Expansion and Political Decline
4. Rise and Decline of the Public Sphere
5. Antipolitics Left and Right
6. Political Power and Its Discontents
7. The Postmodern Impasse
Conclusion: A Revival of Politics?
Postscript: The Year 2000
Postscript to the Paperback Edition: Economic Globalization and Political Atrophy
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