Confronting Postmodern Uncertainty

In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 35, Heft 5, S. 676-685

Abstract

A review essay on books by (1) Mari Caputi, A Kinder, Gentler America: Meloncholia and the Mythical 1950s (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005); (2) Marcie Frank, How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal (Raleigh, NC: Duke University Press, 2005); (3) Gay Hawkins, The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish (Lanham. MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006) & (4) Helen Liggett, Urban Encounters Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).