{"product_id":"the-iconoclastic-imagination-ned-ogorman-9780226310237","title":"The Iconoclastic Imagination: Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11","description":"Bloody, fiery spectacles--the Challenger disaster, 9\/11, JFK's assassination--have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the \"where were you when\" question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these spectacles so packed with meaning? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Iconoclastic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, Ned O'Gorman approaches each of these moments as an image of icon-destruction that give us distinct ways to imagine social existence in American life. He argues that the Cold War gave rise to crises in political, aesthetic, and political-aesthetic representations. Locating all of these crises within a \"neoliberal imaginary,\" O'Gorman explains that since the Kennedy assassination, the most powerful way to see \"America\" has been in the destruction of representative American symbols or icons. This, in turn, has profound implications for a neoliberal economy, social philosophy, and public policy. Richly interwoven with philosophical, theological, and rhetorical traditions, the book offers a new foundation for a complex and innovative approach to studying Cold War America, political theory, and visual culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ned O'Gorman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022631023X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226310237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Ned O'Gorman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086402564351,"sku":"9780226310237","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a771f4b4-0578-47da-8f70-9b40980a70cd.jpg?v=1769094478","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-iconoclastic-imagination-ned-ogorman-9780226310237","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}