Amy E. Wendling

Ruling Ideas

Bourgeois Political Concepts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The concepts that organize our thinking wield, by virtue of this fact, a great deal of political power. This book looks at five concepts whose dominion has increased, steadily, during the bourgeois period of modernity: Labor, Time, Property, Value, and Crisis. These ruling ideas are central not only to many academic disciplines— from philosophy and law to the political, social, and economic sciences— but also to everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9780739192887
• ISBN-10: 0739192884
• Artikelnr.: 40338337

Autorenporträt

Amy E. Wendling

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Labor
Political Ontology
The Category "Labor"
Labor1: Ontology of the Self
Labor2: Historical Mode of Activity
Labor3: Category of Capitalist Modernity
Conclusion: On Work and Identity
Chapter 2: Time
Abstract Time as a System of Domination
Bourgeois Temporal Norms
Resistances to Temporal Domination
Rebellions against Temporal Domination
Complicity with Temporal Domination
Conclusion: Social Class and Temporality
Chapter 3: Property
Bourgeois Property and Ownership
Is Water Property?
Is Your Body Property?
Conclusion: Does Property Help or Harm Us?
Chapter 4: Value
Use Value, Bourgeois Value, and The Work of Retrieval
The Paradox of Value
Imagining Value
On Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx
Conclusion: Labor's Exchange Value
Chapter 5: Crisis
Political Economy
Recurrence of Crisis
Fall in the Rate of Profit
The 2008 Economic Crisis and the False Desire of Home Ownership
Conclusion: Crisis Writ Large