Age of Fracture Rodgers Daniel T.
Age of Fracture Rodgers Daniel T. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Flexible markets pushed aside Keynesian macroeconomic…
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Age of Fracture Rodgers Daniel T.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Flexible markets pushed aside Keynesian macroeconomic structures. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more fluid.
In this wide-ranging narrative, Daniel T. Racial and gender solidarity divided into multiple identities; community responsibility shrank to smaller circles. Rodgers shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain.Age of Fracture offers a powerful reinterpretation of the ways in which the decades surrounding the 1980s changed America.
Through a contagion of visions and metaphors, on both the intellectual right and the intellectual left, earlier notions of history and society that stressed