Capitalism and Citizenship - The Impossible Partnership

List 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

About the author

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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Dean, Dean Kathryn
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2003
• EAN: 9780415272742
• ISBN: 978-0-415-27274-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Weight: 460 g
• Series: Critical Realism: Interventions Routledge Critical Realism
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Finance & accounting, Society and culture: general, Finance and accounting