Synopses & Reviews
"
Beyond Glasnost is a thoughtful exploration of the past decade's cultural and political ferment in Eastern Europe. It is also something else: an argument—in a deceptively unassuming, anti-ideological voice—about how to conceive of and move toward freedom; an argument that could hardly be more relevant to the roiling debates on the Western left."—Ellen Willis,
Village VoiceAbout the Author
Jeffrey C. Goldfarb is professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of
The Cynical Society and
On Cultural Freedom, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Table of Contents
Preface, 1991
Foreword by Jan Jozef Szczepanski
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One - Totalitarianism
1. What Is Totalitarianism?
2. Newspeak and the Politics of Force
3. The Limits of Newspeak
Part Two - Post-Totalitarianism
4. Truth, Politics, and Autonomous Culture
5. Autonomous Politics
Part Three - The Post-Totalitarian Mind and the Neototalitarian State
6. The Post-Totalitarian Terrain
7. The Withering Away of Totalitarianism?
Epilogue: Them and Us
Notes
Index