The great retreat: Decline of the public sphere in late twentieth-century America

Theory and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 741-780

  Boggs, Carl ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 21944437352     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006849114681     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Jürgen Habermas, "The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article," in Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas Kellner, editors, Critical Theory and Society (New York: Routledge, 1989), 136.
2. C. B. Macpherson, The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), 43.
3. Macpherson, Life and Times, 79.
4. Alvin Gouldner, The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class (New York: Seabury, 1979).
5. It is not only leftists who detect a profoundly elitist, anti-democratic tendency within American politics. For a mainstream example, see Michael Lind, "To Have and Have Not," Harper's (June 1995).
6. E. J. Dionne, Jr., Why Americans Hate Politics (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991), 332.
7. David Croteau, Politics and the Class Divide (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), 13.
8. Martin P. Wattenberg, The Decline of American Political Parties (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), ix.
9. "Survey of College Freshmen Attitudes," UCLA Higher Education Research Institute. Reported in Los Angeles Times (March 27, 1995).
10. H. Mark Roelofs, The Poverty of American Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992), 209.
11. Stanley A. Deetz, Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992).
12. Lauren Langman, "Neon Cages: Shopping for Subjectivity," in R. Shields, editor, Lifestyles of Consumption (London: Sage, 1992).
13. Douglas Kellner, The Persian Gulf TV War (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1992).
14. On the evolution and impact of the talk show in American culture, see Wayne Munson, All Talk (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993).
15. Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), 339.
16. Sheldon Wolin, "What Revolutionary Action Means Today," in Chantal Mouffe, editor, Dimensions of Radical Democracy (New York : Verson, 1992), 241.
17. Theodore Roszak, "America after Affluence: An Era of Limits and Values," in Walter Truett Anderson, Rethinking Liberalism (New York: Avon Books, 1983), 29.
18. Eric Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels (New York: W. W. Norton, 1959), chs. IV-VI.
19. Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Spiritual Politics (New York: Ballantine Books, 1994), 4.
20. Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Spiritual Politics, Ibid., 14.
21. Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Spiritual Politics, Ibid., 20.
22. Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Spiritual Politics, Ibid., 26-28.
23. Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Spiritual Politics, Ibid., 237, 238.
24. Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Spiritual Politics, Ibid., 421.
25. T. W. Adorno, The Stars Down to Earth (Heidelberg: Carl Winter. Universitäts-verlag, 1957).