| Depoliticization: The Political Imaginary of Global Capitalism Contributor(s): Humphrey, Jf (Editor), Straume, Ingerid S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 8787564211 ISBN-13: 9788787564212 Publisher: Aarhus University Press OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 338.9 |
| LCCN: 2013400734 |
| Physical Information: 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Depoliticization: The Political Imaginary of Global Capitalism follows in the path blazed by Hannah Arendt and Cornelius Castoriadis, where politics is seen as a mode of freedom; the possibility for individulas to consciously and explicitly create the institutions of their own societies. Starting with such problems as: What is capital? How can we characterize the dominant economic system? What are the conditions for its existence, and how can we create alternatives?, the articles examine the central institutions of modern Western societies, market capitalism, representative liberal democracy, and science. To elucidate the problem of depoliticization, the authors engage a number of thinkers from Karl Marx, Max Weber, Thorstein Veblen to Cornelius Castoriadis, Michel Foucault, Jacques Ranciere, and Stanley Kubrick |
