Academic politics and social change

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: the interface of political theory and cultural studies 1
4. I. Warring Maneuvers
5. The will, capital punishment, and cultural war 23
6. The subject of true feeling: pain, privacy, and politics 42
7. Cultural politics: political theory and the foundations of democratic order 63
8. Academic politics and social change 80
9. II. Shifting Culture
10. The song remains the same: communitarianism's cultural politics 95
11. The governmentality of discussion 115
12. The cultural turn in marxism 132
13. Action or distraction? cultural studies in the united states 147
14. III. Generating Politics
15. Democracy and national fantasy: reflections on the statue of liberty 167
16. Imagined immunities 189
17. Race and the romance of american nationalism in martin luther king, norman mailer, and james baldwin 209
18. Making of the unwanted colonies: (un}imagining desire 228
19. IV. Haunting Affiliations
20. Real american dreams (can be nightmares) 243
21. Wild things 258
22. The politics of the “family” 269
23. Declarations of Independence 285
24. Notes 305
25. Contributors 351
26. Index 355