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Transcending Capitalism talks about why many influential mid-century American cultural theorists came to trust it was no longer meaningful to spell it out modern Western population as "capitalist", but instead preferred alternatives such as "postcapitalist" population, "postindustrial" population, or the "technological" population. Howard Brick locates this postcapitalist vision within a long history of cultural theory and ideology. He troubles the common view that American thought and culture utterly succumbed in the 1940s to a traditional cold war consensus that reserve the reform ideology and cultural theory of the early twentieth century. Alternatively, goals of the transfer to a new social overall economy persisted and cannot be disregarded among the elements contributing to the revival of dissenting thought and practice in the 1960s. Rooted in a politics of cultural liberalism, this vision held effect for about a half century, from its interwar origins until the right turn in American political culture during the 1970s and 1980s. In offering a historically based knowledge of North american postcapitalist thought, Brick also presents some current choices for reinvigorating critical cultural thought that explores transitional advancements beyond capitalism. The reserve is posted by Cornell University or college Press.
