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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Dean, Kathryn (1943-....)
Titre(s) : Capitalism, citizenship, and the arts of thinking [Texte imprimé] : a Marxian-Aristotelian linguistic account / Kathryn Dean
Publication : Abingdon : Routledge, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-246 p.) ; 25 cm
Collection : Ontological explorations
Lien à la collection : Ontological explorations
Comprend : Citizenship, thinking and the education of the senses ; Towards a MarxianAristotelian
theory of thinking ; Thinking and language modalities ; Writing and the institution
of a textualised world ; Alienation and the capitalist divisions of labour ; Thinking
in an informatised world part ; Print and the constitution of a "people" ; From
nationality to planetarity : from "people" to "multitude"?
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 216-241. Index
Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking proposes a historical materialist
ethic of human flourishing understood in terms of the practice of citizenship. It
focuses on the ways in which capitalism's necessary mode of thinking - analytical
thinking - impedes the nurturing of capabilities for citizenship as understood from
a Marxian-Aristotelian point of view. It includes a systematic discussion of the Aristotelian
resonances in Marx's critique of capitalism, as well as an elaboration and critique
of Alfred Sohn-Rethel's account of the origins of analytical thinking in his book
Intellectual and Manual Labor: A Critique of Epistemology. Dean's critique of this
book draws on the language theories of Lev Vygotsky, Alexander Luria, Jack Goody,
Eric Havelock and Walter Ong, so as to identify the origins of analytical thinking
in literacy rather than in monetised exchange relations, as claimed by Sohn-Rethel.
Having traced the development of analytical thinking so as to bring out the ways in
which this thinking was a condition of possibility for the division of head and hand
in nineteenth-century England, Dean brings the analysis into the contemporary world
by examining the changes effected by digitalised communication in terms citizenship
capabilities now, drawing on the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in order
to do so. The book's ground-breaking content is in the fusion of Marxian, Aristotelian
and linguistic elements to develop a critique of capitalism's hegemonic mode of thinking
(analytical thinking) as manifested in the modern sciences and to show how the draining
of intelligibility from the everyday world permitted by this thinking becomes an obstacle
to the practice of meaningful citizenship. Its main appeal will be to Marxist thinkers
whose main concern is with the alienating, as opposed to exploitative, character of
capitalist modes of life. It is written to complement the work of such Marxists, these
being, in the main, writers such as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri and is pitched
at researchers in the field. It could be used on post-graduate courses in political
theory, as well as social and cultural theory
Sujet(s) : Marx, Karl (1818-1883) -- Critique et interprétation
Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.) -- Critique et interprétation
Capitalisme -- Philosophie
Pensée
Citoyenneté -- Philosophie
Matérialisme historique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415553506 (rel.). - ISBN 0415553504. - ISBN 9780203871706 (erroné)
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