Idiotism (eBook)

Capitalism and the Privatisation of Life

Neal Curtis (Autor)

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2012
184 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-84964-789-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new 'common sense'. Using the Greek word idios, meaning 'private', Neal Curtis calls this privatisation of the world idiotism . Through constructing a new vocabulary with which to understand our society, Curtis examines 'idiotism' across the spheres of economics, politics and culture, drawing on the philosophy and political theories of Martin Heidegger, Louis Althusser, Franco Berardi, Jacques Ranciere and Cornelius Castoriadis. This book recasts our conception of the new privatised world's 'common sense', presenting it as not simply a case of false consciousness, but an problem related to our own existence.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2012
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Ayn Rand • Books on 2008 banking crisis • capitalism and private life • capitalism and the individual • common sense theory • Consumer Culture • David Harvey • Deregulation • enclosure and privatisation • Financialization of the economy • Globalisation • idiotism • Jacques Ranciere • managerialism • Martin Heidegger • Milton Friedman • Richard Sennett • Totalitarianism • transnational capitalist class
• ISBN-10: 1-84964-789-5 / 1849647895
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84964-789-2 / 9781849647892