The end of utopia : politics and culture in an age of apathy / Russell Jacoby.

1. The End of the End of the End of Ideology -- 2. The Myth of Multiculturalism -- 3. Mass Culture and Anarchy -- 4. Intellectuals: From Utopia to Myopia -- 5. Thick Aestheticism and Thin Nativism -- 6. Retail Sanity and Wholesale Madness.

"In The End of Utopia, Russell Jacoby takes a sobering look at the future of politics and does not like what he sees. Like Daniel Bell and Francis Fukuyama, Jacoby agrees that utopianismthe engine of social and political change - is obsolete. But unlike these critics, he does not celebrate the resulting triumph of realism and practicality. The obsolescence of utopianism, he argues, is born not out of consensus but of the exhaustion of political alternatives."--BOOK JACKET. "Russell Jacoby points to the abandonment of utopian ideals that once sustained dissent and movements of social change; and he calls for writers and critics to reclaim a vision and backbone they are losing."--BOOK JACKET.