Obama and the end of the American Dream : : essays in political and economic philosophy / / by Michael A. Peters.
The American Dream that crystallized around James Truslow Adams’ The Epic of America originally formulated in the early 1930s and was conditioned by a decade of complexity and contradiction, of big government projects, intensely fierce nationalism, the definition of the American way, and a distincti...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (118 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Prologue
- Renewing the American Dream: Obama’s Political Philosophy
- Automobilism, Americanism and the End of Fordism
- Obama’s Health Reforms and the Limits of Public Reason
- Economics Trumps Politics; Market Trumps Democracy
- The Global Failure of Neoliberalism: Privatize Profits; Socialize Losses
- Post-Americanism and the Changing Architecture of Global Science
- Ecopolitics of ‘Green Economy’, Environmentalism and Education
- Obama’s ‘Postmodernism’, Humanism and History
- ‘Winning the Future’
- The Egyptian Revolution 2011
- Obama, Education and the End of the American Dream
- Epilogue
- Postscript / Tina Besley.