Cruel Optimism

by Lauren Berlant

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Author(s)

Lauren Berlant

Publication

Durham : Duke University, 2011

Scope

352 Pages, 23 cm.

ISBN

9780822351115

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Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life despite evidence that liberal-capitalist societies can no longer be counted on to provide opportunities for individuals to make their lives “add up to something”.

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Keywords

alternative economy , neo liberalism

Location

Cabinet 11 - 5: Kritiek op het Neoliberalisme

Remarks

Incl. Notes, Bibliography, Index