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Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America
By James Davison Hunter
432 pages
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- BasicBooks
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Preface xi
- I - Introduction 1
- Prologue - Stories from the Front 3
- 1 - Cultural Conflict in America 31
- 2 - The Anatomy of Cultural Conflict 52
- II - The New Lines of Conflict 65
- 3 - The Historical Roots of the Culture War 67
- 4 - Competing Moral Visions 107
- III - Cultural Warfare 133
- 5 - The Discourse of Adversaries 135
- 6 The Technology of Public Discourse 159
- IV - The Fields of Conflict 171
- Opening Observations 173
- 7 Family 176
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Preface xi
- I - Introduction 1
- Prologue - Stories from the Front 3
- 1 - Cultural Conflict in America 31
- 2 - The Anatomy of Cultural Conflict 52
- II - The New Lines of Conflict 65
- 3 - The Historical Roots of the Culture War 67
- 4 - Competing Moral Visions 107
- III - Cultural Warfare 133
- 5 - The Discourse of Adversaries 135
- 6 The Technology of Public Discourse 159
- IV - The Fields of Conflict 171
- Opening Observations 173
- 7 Family 176
- 8 - Education 197
- 9 - Media and the Arts 225
- 10 - Law 250
- 11 - Electoral Politics 272
- Parting Observations 288
- V - Toward Resolution 293
- 12 - Moral Pluralism and the Democratic Ideal 295
- Epilogue - Democratic Possibilities 318
- Notes 326
- Selected Bibliography 393
- Index 403