"Published one year after Forget Foucault, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (1983 ; originally published in French in 1978) challenges political representation, mediation and dialectics. It probably is the most important socio-political manifesto of the 20th century (paral…
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[This book] offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. To explain how and why this has come about, Barber …
This provocative culmination of Benjamin R. Barber's lifelong study of democracy and capitalism shows how the infantalist ethos deprives society of responsible citizens and displaces public gods with private commodites.
An examination of the effects of capitalism on American culture and society reveals how consumer capitalism overproduces goods, targets children as consumers, and replaces public goods with private commodities.
This provocative culmination of Benjamin R. Barber's lifelong study of democracy and capitalism shows how the infantalist ethos deprives society of responsible citizens and displaces public gods with private commodites.
An examination of the effects of capitalism on American culture and society reveals how consumer capitalism overproduces goods, targets children as consumers, and replaces public goods with private commodities.
In a rambling series of essays -- partly analytical, partly polemical, and partly autobiographical -- Fiedler takes issue with the elitist and prescriptive tendency among the self-appointed guardians of art, and with the modern split between 'high' and 'low' forms of literature.…
