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Product Description: A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted...read more
Hardcover:
9780822350972 | Duke Univ Pr, October 27, 2011, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing.
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9780822351115 | Duke Univ Pr, October 27, 2011, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9780312658854 | 1 edition (Picador USA, August 3, 2010), cover price $16.00
Product Description: A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image...read more
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9781427208361 | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, October 13, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image.
Product Description: Americans are a positive people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat. This is our reputation as well as our self-image. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude, and exposes the downside of irrational optimism...read more
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9781410424709 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 17, 2010), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Americans are a positive people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat.
9780805087499 | 1 edition (Metropolitan Books, October 13, 2009), cover price $23.00
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