In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more fluid. Flexible markets pushed aside Keynesian macroeconomic structures. Racial and gender solidarity divided into multiple identities; community responsibility shrank to smaller circles. In this wide-ranging narrative, Daniel Rodgers shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. Age of Fracture offers a powerful reinterpretation of the ways in which the decades surrounding the 1980s changed America. Through a contagion of visions and metaphors, on both the intellectual right and the intellectual left, earlier notions of history and society that stressed solidity, collective institutions, and social circumstances gave way to a more individualized human nature that emphasized choice, agency, performance, and desire. On a broad canvas that includes Michel Foucault, Ronald Reagan, Judith Butler, Charles Murray, Jeffrey Sachs, and many more, Rodgers explains how structures of power came to seem less important than market choice and fluid selves. Cutting across the social and political arenas of late-twentieth-century life and thought, from economic theory and the culture wars to disputes over poverty, color-blindness, and sisterhood, Rodgers reveals how our categories of social reality have been fractured and destabilized. As we survey the intellectual wreckage of this war of ideas, we better understand the emergence of our present age of uncertainty. 试译要求：译文流畅；专有名词翻译准确；稿件齐清定，无遗留问题。在试译稿开头加上你想推荐的该本书的中译名哦~ 试译时间：一周（从收到试译文件之日起计算）。 加入理想国译者大家庭，福利多多。 如果理想国编辑大大们对初次合作的译者反馈很好的话，就可以继续翻译他们的新书哦。能成为理想国长期合作的译者，稿费更高~大家加油吧！ 有其他问题，请联系jianghaoqian@yeeyan.com。 注：本书非常急，要求5月交稿。英文单词约15万，会选取2-3名合适的译者参加。

Daniel T. Rodgers, 美国历史学家，1942年生于宾夕法尼亚州，本科毕业于布朗大学，在耶鲁大学获得了博士学位。他的作品主要探讨20世纪最后30年间美国社会思想的变迁。著有《Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics since Independence》、《Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age》等书。