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The Cynical Society is a study of the political despair and abdication of (individual) responsibility Goldfarb calls cynicisma central but unexamined aspect of contemporary American political and social life. Goldfarb reveals with vivid strokes how cynicism undermines our capacity to think about society's strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on thinkers from Alexis de Tocqueville to Allan Bloom and on such recent works as Beloved, Bonfire of the Vanities, and Mississippi Burning, The Cynical Society celebrates cultural pluralism's role in democracy.

The Cynical Society

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 November 1992
      ISBN-13 9780226301075
      978-0226301075
      ISBN-10 0226301079
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      Political science and theory Social, group or collective psychology

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      Book Synopsis
      The Cynical Society is a study of the political despair and abdication of (individual) responsibility Goldfarb calls cynicisma central but unexamined aspect of contemporary American political and social life. Goldfarb reveals with vivid strokes how cynicism undermines our capacity to think about society's strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on thinkers from Alexis de Tocqueville to Allan Bloom and on such recent works as Beloved, Bonfire of the Vanities, and Mississippi Burning, The Cynical Society celebrates cultural pluralism's role in democracy.

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