When Down is Up: The Desublimating Impulse - Softcover
An interdisciplinary study of the sociological, political, and philosophical background to our contemporary culture from the late 1970s onwards.
This collection of essays explores why the idea of counter-culture and the underground once so suggestive of the Left has been appropriated by the reactionaries of the 1990s taking as examples:
the recent ascendance of a radical right-wing culture
local militias
racist religious sects
and argues this is a consequence of the embodiment of modernism's dissident tendency within a hostile social field. Miller concludes that many of the ideas of the cultural underground came off as hopelessly romantic, if not deluded or childish.
This collection of essays explores why the idea of counter-culture and the underground once so suggestive of the Left has been appropriated by the reactionaries of the 1990s taking as examples:
the recent ascendance of a radical right-wing culture
local militias
racist religious sects
and argues this is a consequence of the embodiment of modernism's dissident tendency within a hostile social field. Miller concludes that many of the ideas of the cultural underground came off as hopelessly romantic, if not deluded or childish.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 9057010526
- ISBN 13 9789057010521
- BindingPaperback
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