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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; PART I The materialities of thinking; 1 Citizenship, thinking and the education of the senses; 2 Towards a historical-materialist science of thinking; 3 Thinking and language modalities; PART II Alienation, textualisation and the capitalist divisions of labour; 4 Writing and the institution of a textualised world; 5 Alienation and the capitalist divisions of labour; 6 Thinking in an informatised world; PART III From Fordism to post-Fordism, or, the transcendence of alienation? |
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7 Print and the constitution of a 'people', or, the institution of alienated politics8 From nationality to planetarity: from people to multitude?; References; Index |
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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 bo |
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
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Aristotle
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Aristotle fast |
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 fast |
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Thought and thinking.
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Capitalism.
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Citizenship.
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Thinking
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thinking.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Capitalism
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Citizenship
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Thought and thinking
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135230463 |
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1135230463 |
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