IMAGERY VS. REALITY IN THE PERCEPTION OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
IMAGERY VS. REALITY IN THE PERCEPTION OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

Summary/Abstract: Ideology plays an essential role in the cultural formation of American identity. The ideology of the American Dream, which is the foundation of the American identity, is a historically and culturally explained paradigm which, due to the lack of concrete physical reference and to the extreme subjectivity that it entails, has favored the emergence of theories regarding the illusionary aspect of the cultural image of the country. The paper approaches some such theories, including Baudrillard’s famous “loss of the real” theory regarding the American cultural space.

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