| Contents |
Pt. I. High modernism in America : self and society in the early Cold War -- Science, postmodernity, and the rise of high modernism -- Reconsidering the authoritarian personality in America: the sociological challenge of David Riesman -- Psychoanalysis and the debate over the Democratic personality: Norman Brown's Freudian revisions -- Pt. II. The revolt of romantic modernism : Beatniks, action painters, and Reichians -- A question of character: the dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills -- Beyond primitivism and the Fellahin: receiving James Baldwin's gift of love -- Masculinity, spontaneity, and the act: the bodily ego of Jasper Johns -- Rethinking the feminine within: the cultural politics of James Baldwin -- Pt. III. The challenge of late modernism -- Rhetoric and the politics of identification writ large: the late modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison -- The legacy of late modernism. |
