The Case of California

By Laurence A. Rickels and Professor Laurence A. Rickels

Book Overview

A cult classic that explores the concept of "California", now back in print

Cultural Studies

Focusing on the changing image of the West Coast through such varied social and cultural artifacts as bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, milk-carton images of missing children, teenage slang, and surf music, Laurence A. Rickels offers a dizzying psychohistory of the twentieth century as crystallized in the symbolic configuration called California and considered in relation to German modernism, national socialism, and Freudian psychoanalysis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816638780
• ISBN13: 9780816638789
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.7"