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Lauren Berlant Cruel Optimism (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Cruel OptimismCondition: NewEAN: 9780822351115ISBN: 9780822351115Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/27/2011Author: Lauren BerlantLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0822351110Description: A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. 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—with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy—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.” Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theory—with its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinary—is not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.Country/Region of Manufacture: USItem Weight: 522gGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Cruel Optimism

Title: Cruel Optimism

EAN: 9780822351115

ISBN: 9780822351115

Release Date: 10/27/2011

Release Year: 2011

ISBN-10: 0822351110

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Society & Culture

Topic: Social Sciences

Number of Pages: 352 Pages

Publication Name: Cruel Optimism

Language: English

Publisher: Duke University Press

Publication Year: 2011

Item Height: 0.7 in

Subject: Sociology / General, Social History, Popular Culture, Semiotics & Theory, Motivational & Inspirational

Item Weight: 17.6 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Self-Help, History

Item Length: 9.2 in

Author: Lauren Berlant

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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