Full Description
The rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries
Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Theoretical Reflections 1. Public Life, Aesthetics, and Social Theory 2. Social Movements and Aesthetic Politics 3. Identity, Knowledge, Solidarity, and Aesthetic Politics Part II. History and Social Movements 4. The World Is a Stage and Life Is a Carnival: The Rise of the Aesthetic Sphere and Pop u lar Culture 5. Labor and Aesthetic Politics: French Revolutionary Syndicalism, the IWW, and Fascism 6. The Flowering of Aesthetic Politics: May 1968, the New Social Movements, and the Global Justice Movement Conclusion Notes Index
