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The end of the modern and the emergence of the postmodern in 1960s philosophy, literature, and popular culture.

The question of the animal has preoccupied an increasing number of humanities, science, and social science scholars in recent years, and important work continues to expand the burgeoning field of animal studies. However, a key question still needs to be explored: Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars have resisted arguments that add ""species"" to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and other human-identity categories as a

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I : MODERN TO POSTMODERN -- Introduction: Modern, Sixties, Postmodern -- 1. Modern to Postmodern in Herbert Marcuse -- II : CULTURE INDUSTRY TO POPULAR CULTURE -- 2. Culture Industry to Popular Culture in Mythologies -- 3. Las Vegas Signs Taken for Wonders -- 4. Loathing and Learning in Las Vegas -- 5. Endnotes I: Sixties, Avant-Garde, Popular Culture -- III : PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY TO POSTMODERN POPULISM -- 6. Participatory Democracy in Port Huron -- 7. Paradise Then -- 8. William Burroughs: Any Number Can Play -- 9. Endnotes II: Sixties, Avant-Garde, Popular Culture -- IV : SUBJECT POLITICS -- 10. Politics of the Self -- 11. Laing's Politics of the Self -- 12. Tell Me Lies about Vietnam -- 13. Fire Next Time or Rainbow Sign -- 14. Personal and Political -- 15. Utopia Limited -- Conclusion: Post-Utopian Promise -- Notes -- Selected Annotated Bibliography -- Index