Haven’t we had “cultural turns” before? The Renaissance, Romanticism, High Modernism, The Progressive Era, “The 60′s”. Any period in which culture comes to play a direct role in politics and vice versa amounts to a cultural turn. Intellectuals begin imagining a new world replete with new social forms and new ways of thinking. Gaps are bridged between disciplines; confusion about what constitutes what. At the end, there are lamentations about the breaking down of the social order. Reformation, Disraelism/Victorianism, Fascism, McCarthyism, the Reagan Revolution…
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