Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Hughes, Robert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year Published: 1993
Pages: 210pp Price: $19.95 ISBN: 0-19-507676-1
Library of Congress Number: NX180.S6H85 Dewey: 700'.1'0309730904
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX7002
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Lecture 1: Culture and the Broken Polity
Lecture 2: Multi-Culti and Its Discontents
Lecture 3: Moral in Itself: Art and the Therapeutic Fallacy
Notes
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