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Paperback The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject Book

ISBN: 0801846048

ISBN13: 9780801846045

The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject

(Part of the Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society Series)

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In The Well-Tempered Self, Toby Miller argues that the modern capitalist state musters a variety of cultural forces to send deliberately mixed messages about the nature of citizenship and the self. The process creates ideal citizens: cultural subjects trained to meet the conflicting needs of the political and economic systems. Miller contents that capitalism's democratic politics requires selfless, community-minded citizens, white its economics depends on selfish, utilitarian consumers. To fulfill these conflicting needs for political order and economic prosperity, powerful cultural forces are employed to instill a sense of ethical incompleteness. Citizens are then offered political, cultural, and economic opportunities to become better, happier, and more fulfilled--opportunities that, in turn, encourage loyalty to both the political and economic systems. In a series of case studies that demonstrate this process, Miller examines mass enternationment, political discourse, and methods of resistance to these powerful cultural forces.

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