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Nolan, James Lawry, Jr.

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The therapeutic state: Legitimation of the postmodern political order.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The therapeutic state: Legitimation of the postmodern political order./
Author:	Nolan, James Lawry, Jr.
Description:	403 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-09, Section: A, page: 3726.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-09A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=9600419

The therapeutic state: Legitimation of the postmodern political order.
Nolan, James Lawry, Jr.

The therapeutic state: Legitimation of the postmodern political order. - 403 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-09, Section: A, page: 3726.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 1995.

This study assesses the impact of a therapeutic system of moral understanding on the modern American state. Recognizing that the state has historically been legitimated according to prevailing cultural sentiments and that former bases of legitimation have become increasingly implausible, the project investigates the extent to which a therapeutic cultural ethos is providing the state with a new form of legitimation in the contemporary context. Toward this end I consider developments in five major institutions of the state: civil case law, criminal justice, public education, welfare policy, and political rhetoric. The investigation is based upon archival research; content analysis of various legal and government documents, educational curricula, and political debates; analysis of two longitudinal surveys by the National Elections Study and the Bureau of Justice Statistics; field observation of courts in five locations around the country; and some interviews with individuals from the different state institutions. I find that the therapeutic tendency within American culture--typified as it is by an elevated concern with the self, by a conspicuously emotivist form of discourse and self-understanding, by a proclivity to invoke the language of victimhood and to view behaviors in pathological rather than moral terms, and by the elevated social status of psychologists and other therapeutic practitioners--has indeed begun to infuse itself into the processes of the American state. Such a development represents the emergence of a new basis of state legitimation and may portend a transformation in the very nature of the state and in the way state authority is exercised over the citizens within its domain.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

The therapeutic state: Legitimation of the postmodern political order.
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