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997544
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b751914
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Smith, Paul,1954 November 23-
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| Title & Author
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Primitive America : : the ideology of capitalist democracy /\ Paul Smith.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (xv, 135 pages)
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0816654255
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0816628262
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0816628270
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9780816628261
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9780816628278
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.
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| Contents
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Preamble -- "We" and "you" -- Dialectics -- Freedom, equality, democracy -- Love and contradiction -- What is not allowed to be said -- Narcissistic symbols -- Narcissistic refraction -- Subject of value -- Historical fictions -- Primitive -- Fetishism -- Atavism -- Primitive accumulation -- Imperial power -- Meaningless politics -- Ideologues -- Fascism -- Legal matters -- Animals -- Human rights -- Precarious politics.
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For cultural critic Paul Smith, the tension between progressive and primitive is a constitutive condition of American history and culture. In Primitive America, Smith contemplates this primary contradiction as it has played out in the years since 9/11. An urgent and important engagement with current American policies and practices, Primitive America is, at the same time, an incisive critique of the ideology that fuels the ethos of America's capitalist culture.
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Capitalism-- United States.
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Democracy-- United States.
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Capitalism.
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Civilization.
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Democracy.
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HISTORY-- State Local-- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- American Government-- General.
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United States, Civilization.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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973
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HB501.S6364 2007eb
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| Parallel Title
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Ideology of capitalist democracy
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