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Capitalism and Citizenship Kathryn Dean (University of London, UK.)

Capitalism and Citizenship By Kathryn Dean (University of London, UK.)

Summary

This book develops a multi-disciplinary theory of citizenship, exploring the human abilities needed for its practice. It then argues that capitalism impedes the nurturing of these abilities, drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers.

Capitalism and Citizenship Summary

Capitalism and Citizenship: The Impossible Partnership by Kathryn Dean (University of London, UK.)

Citizenship is a key issue for advocates of the third way: this volume argues that it is irrevocably incompatible with capitalism, which will be controversial

About Kathryn Dean (University of London, UK.)

Kathryn Dean is a member of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Table of Contents

Part 1: Theoretical Foundations 1. Human Nature: Indeterminate and Indeterminable 2. Capitalism: Culture of Worldlessness Part 2: The Wordly World of the Bourgeois Subject 3. The Wordly World of Bourgeois Subject 4. Parenting and the Consitution of Bougeois Part 3: From Place to Space: the Death of Worldliness 5. The Institution of Commodity Fetishism 6. Abstract labour and the Network Society 7. Abstract Consumption and the Dissolution of the Ego 8. Abstract Knowledge: Disorganized Capitalism and the Vicissitudes of Science Conclusion: Citizenship and the Recovery of Worldliness

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NLS9780415272742
9780415272742
0415272742
Capitalism and Citizenship: The Impossible Partnership by Kathryn Dean (University of London, UK.)
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2003-07-17
246
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