COUNTERCULTURE BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND TOTALITARIANISM
COUNTERCULTURE BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND TOTALITARIANISM

Summary/Abstract: The emerging cultural movements of the young rebels against the Establishment values are typically described by the term counterculture. The complexity and the implications carried by the so-called counterculture, and the multitude of socio-political context in which it appears requires some conceptual delimitation. The aim of this paper is to observe the manifestations and transfigurations of the counterculture in a democratic but also in a totalitarian regime. In doing so, I reduce all the uses of the term counterculture, which typically occur in the field of cultural studies, to four major classes: applied counter culture, contraculture, transient counterculture and alternative culture.

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