| Europe and Capitalism: Regaining the Future Contributor(s): Fusaro, Diego (Author) |
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ISBN: 8857526607 ISBN-13: 9788857526607 Publisher: Mimesis OUR PRICE: $13.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | World - European - Business & Economics | International - Economics |
| Dewey: 335.4 |
| Series: Politics |
| Physical Information: 130 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The current European Union is too often presented as the perfect realization of a Europe of the people and freedom. The present essay overturns the common way to understand this reality. A triumph of capitalism, which has now become absolute, the creation of the European Union has in fact proceeded to destabilize the hegemony of the political. It has paved the road to an irresistible cycle of privatizations and cuts to public spending, to forced precarization of labor and to an ever-more sharp reduction of social rights, inflicting economic violence upon the subaltern and the most economically deprived. For this reason, the only way to re-imagine the future, to vindicate the people and work, and to continue the struggle that was Marx's and Gramsci's, is to move from a radical critique of finance and the Euro. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fusaro, Diego: - Diego Fusaro (Turin, 1983) is an attentive scholar of the philosophy of history and the structures of historical temporality, with particular interest for the thought of Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Gentile and Gramsci, as well as for German "conceptual history". He recently published Europe and Capitalism. Regaining the Future (Mimesis International). He is also the editor of the internet project "La filosofia e i suoi eroi" (www.filosofico.net). |