Overview
"This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's ""Growing Up Absurd"", a critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture and education to provide a society that could inspire young people, an adult society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and expressed not through social investment but through consumption; the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. But the power to consume is distributed very evenly, and even for the affluent it never fulfils the desire produced by the advertising industry. 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, counselling, 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."
Full Product Details
Author: Ronald Strickland ,
Jennifer Drake ,
Henry A. Giroux ,
Margaret Henderson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.467kg
ISBN: 9780742516502
ISBN 10: 0742516504
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 25 June 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
If you care what 'young' means in the developed world today, Growing Up Postmodern's map of the seductions and blameflows of the newest regime is a vital source. Read it and use it to fight back! -- Fred Pfeil, Trinity College Children are the collateral damage in a war that an affluent, unjust society has been waging under the sign of neoliberalism. This book presents the informed, incisive voices raised in protest. -- Amitava Kumar, author of Passport Photos
If you care what 'young' means in the developed world today, Growing Up Postmodern's map of the seductions and blameflows of the newest regime is a vital source. Read it and use it to fight back!--Fred Pfeil
Author Information
Ronald Strickland is professor of English and the director of graduate studies at Illinois State University.
