Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life
By (Author) David W. Noble
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
2nd January 2013
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Politics and government
320.01
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 15mm
Description
Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding.
Reviews
"This is a major book by an important American studies scholar who takes a long view of U.S. and transnational history and culture while making important connections to significant contemporary ideas and movements such as neoliberalism and Tea Party politics. David W. Noble makes a compelling case for the continuing significance of the metaphor of two worlds for understanding the neoliberal disorder around us." --Shelley Streeby
Author Bio
David W. Noble, professor emeritus at University of Minnesota, is the author of many influential books including The Progressive Mind, 18901917, The End of American History, and Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism.
David R. Roediger is professor of history and African American studies at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign.
