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Reading America -- Nation myths -- Manuscript culture and the advent of print -- American civilization -- Originalism and its discontents -- New York and the politics of wealth -- Melville's Wall Street -- "Bartleby" and 19th century tort law -- An epistemology of skepticism -- Isabel Archer as unreflective thought -- American legal discourse -- Law and popular culture -- Cinema, media and The spectator -- Comic books and juvenile crime -- Text, airwaves and content regulation -- Mediatized national interest -- A new left and novels of ideas -- Skinner, Derrida, Baudrillard and subversion -- The entropic word -- Language and responsibility -- The politics of cultural atavism -- Bilingual inequalities -- Education revalorized -- Life, death and accountability. |
