Ideal minds : raising consciousness in the antisocial seventies /
Trask, Michael, 1967-
Ideal minds : raising consciousness in the antisocial seventies / Michael Trask. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (ix, 242 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: From Consciousness Raising to Neo-Idealism -- Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Meritocracy -- Radical Ecology's Mindfulness -- That Seventies Cult -- Millennial America and the World to Come -- Afterword: The Marketization of Everything.
"Ideal Minds is equal parts intellectual and literary history of the recent past. Combining ideas from a mix of disciplines, the book also delves into more esoteric branches of learning, like Scientology, anarchist theory, rapture prophesies, psychic channeling, and neo-Malthusianism. The book's central premise is that a dramatic inflation in the value of consciousness and autonomy beginning in the 1970s accompanied a recognition of the state's refusal to safeguard such values."--
9781501752445 9781501752452
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Literature--Philosophy--1971-
Nineteen seventies--Philosophy.
Neoliberalism in popular culture.
Libertarianism in literature.
Social values--1971-
Self-consciousness (Awareness)--Philosophy--1971-
Autonomy (Philosophy)--History--1971-
Electronic Books.
PN51 / .I343 2020
Ideal minds : raising consciousness in the antisocial seventies / Michael Trask. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (ix, 242 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: From Consciousness Raising to Neo-Idealism -- Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Meritocracy -- Radical Ecology's Mindfulness -- That Seventies Cult -- Millennial America and the World to Come -- Afterword: The Marketization of Everything.
"Ideal Minds is equal parts intellectual and literary history of the recent past. Combining ideas from a mix of disciplines, the book also delves into more esoteric branches of learning, like Scientology, anarchist theory, rapture prophesies, psychic channeling, and neo-Malthusianism. The book's central premise is that a dramatic inflation in the value of consciousness and autonomy beginning in the 1970s accompanied a recognition of the state's refusal to safeguard such values."--
9781501752445 9781501752452
2020005738
Literature--Philosophy--1971-
Nineteen seventies--Philosophy.
Neoliberalism in popular culture.
Libertarianism in literature.
Social values--1971-
Self-consciousness (Awareness)--Philosophy--1971-
Autonomy (Philosophy)--History--1971-
Electronic Books.
PN51 / .I343 2020