CRUEL OPTIMISM | Libreria Carlos Fuentes

CRUEL OPTIMISM

BERLANT, LAUREN

LIBRO IMPRESO

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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. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good lifewith its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacydespite evidence that liberal-capitalist societies can no longer be counted on to provide opportunities for individuals to make their lives add up to something.