Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The mysterious shrinking circle of concern
- 2 Volunteers trying to make sense of the world
- 3 “Close to home” and “for the children”: trying really hard not to care
- 4 Humor, nostalgia, and commercial culture in the postmodern public sphere
- 5 Creating ignorance and memorizing facts: how Buffaloes understood politics
- 6 Strenuous disengagement and cynical chic solidarity
- 7 Activists carving out a place in the public sphere for discussion
- 8 Newspapers in the cycle of political evaporation
- 9 The evaporation of politics in the US public sphere
- Appendix 1 Class in the public sphere
- Appendix 2 Method
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Titles in the serious
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 November 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The mysterious shrinking circle of concern
- 2 Volunteers trying to make sense of the world
- 3 “Close to home” and “for the children”: trying really hard not to care
- 4 Humor, nostalgia, and commercial culture in the postmodern public sphere
- 5 Creating ignorance and memorizing facts: how Buffaloes understood politics
- 6 Strenuous disengagement and cynical chic solidarity
- 7 Activists carving out a place in the public sphere for discussion
- 8 Newspapers in the cycle of political evaporation
- 9 The evaporation of politics in the US public sphere
- Appendix 1 Class in the public sphere
- Appendix 2 Method
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Titles in the serious
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- Avoiding PoliticsHow Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life, pp. 320 - 330Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998