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American vulgar : the politics of manipulation versus the culture of awareness / Robert Grudin.
- Title
- American vulgar : the politics of manipulation versus the culture of awareness / Robert Grudin.
- Author
- Grudin, Robert.
- Publication
- Emeryville, CA : Shoemaker and Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HN59.2 .G78 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 196 p.; 21 cm.
- Subject
- Awareness > Social aspects
- Consciousness > Social aspects
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) > Social aspects
- Mass media > Social aspects > United States
- Political culture > United States
- Popular culture > United States
- Psychology, Social > United States
- Social psychology > United States
- United States
- Vulgarity > Social aspects > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-188) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface: A war and a killing -- The domains of vulgarity -- Waste and wisdom -- Polite vulgarity : American complacency and its suppliers -- Vulgarity, Inc.; vulgarity.com -- Vulgarity and nature -- A footnote on vulgarity and crime -- Introduction: Consciousness as liberation -- Homer and the birth of consciousness -- The education of the vulgar -- Vulgarity and consciousness in the novel -- The nature of social consciousness -- The conscious life -- Conclusion: The heart of the labyrinth -- Postscript.
- ISBN
- 1593761023
- 9781593761028
- LCCN
- ^^2006008709
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library