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Contents: Foreword; Preface: Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia. Part I The Social as Metaphor, Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia: Introduction to Part I: theoretical approach and historical overview: Section A, The theoretical approach; The thinking-talking human being and his categories of thought; The speaking-acting subject and the symbolic field of language; The speaking-acting individual and the imaginary of the Social Field; Section B, A historical overview; Interdependence and places of wandering: a history of places and bonds; Symbolic delimitation versus imaginary bonds; Anthropological debt versus imaginary work places; Readiness to lose versus imaginary places of production; Conclusion to Part I. Part II Cooperatives as Examples and their Paradoxes, Yair Levi. Introduction to Part II: cooperatives, categories of thought, embeddedness/disembeddedness; Images, myths and stereotypes; Section A, The official discourse; Origins and constituent elements; Section B, A critique of the official discourse; Tensions and inconsistencies; Interpreting the socio-economic duality; Paradoxes of cooperatives; The case studies; What have we learned from cooperatives?; Summary and conclusions. Epilogue: Beyond The Social as Metaphor, Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia; Introduction to epilogue: going beyond the social: doing things with words according to the symbolic register; Thinking nestedness as a system of constituent rules; Thinking the political with the categories of the symbolic: the example of South Africa; The virtual more real than reality: The Città Aperta of Sicily; Conclusions, Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia withYair Levi; References; Index.
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Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia
Summary
Drawing on Polanyi, Austin and Lacan, Marie Pellegrin-Rescia and Yair Levi offer a powerful critique of the language and categories of thought that dominate the contemporary intellectual and political landscape. The authors offer a selection of case-studies of co-operatives.
