TY - BOOK ID - 85774773 TI - Ideal minds : raising consciousness in the antisocial seventies PY - 2021 SN - 150175243X 1501752456 9781501752452 1501752448 1501764632 PB - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Literature KW - Neoliberalism in popular culture. KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Literature and philosophy KW - Philosophy and literature KW - Popular culture KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophy KW - Theory KW - Nineteen seventies KW - Libertarianism in literature. KW - Social values. KW - Self-consciousness (Awareness) KW - Autonomy (Philosophy) KW - History. KW - Self-awareness KW - Self-consciousness KW - Consciousness KW - Values KW - 1970s KW - 70s (Twentieth century decade) KW - Seventies (Twentieth century decade) KW - Twentieth century KW - cults in the seventies, libertarianism after the sixties, idealism in modern society, subjectivity in postmodern american culture. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85774773 AB - Following the 1960s, the decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. This book presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the intellectual landscape of the 1970s who share a commitment to what the book calls 'neo-idealism' as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews. ER -