Michael Paul Rogin

Michael Paul Rogin's scholarship profoundly altered the scope, content, and disposition of political theory. This book focuses on three categories of substantive innovation within his work: demonology and countersubversion; the psychic life of liberal society; and political mediation: institutions and culture.

Introduction: The Political Thought of Michael Rogin PART I - Demonology and Countersubversion Chapter 1 Preface [to Ronald Reagan, The Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology] (1987) Chapter 2 Political Repression in the United States (1987) Chapter 3 American Political Demonology: A Retrospective (1987) PART II - The Psychic Life of Liberal Society Chapter 4 Liberal Society and the Indian Question (1971) Chapter 5 The Sword Became a Flashing Vision: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1985) Chapter 6 Two Declarations of American Independence (1996) Chapter 7 Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood, and Cold War Movies (1984) Part III - Political Mediation: Institutions and Culture Chapter 8 The King's Two Bodies: Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, and Presidential Self-Sacrifice (1987) Chapter 9 Herman Melville: State, Civil Society and the American 1848 (1979) Chapter 10 "Make My Day!": Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics (1990) Chapter 11 Protest Politics and the Pluralist Vision (1967) Chapter 12 In Defense of the New Left (1983) Conclusion: Theorizing with Rogin Now