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The Ruling Ideas
ISBN-13:
9780739166024
Veröffentl:
2012
Seiten:
152
Autor:
Amy E. Wendling
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The concepts that organize our thinking wield, by virtue of this fact, a great deal of political power. This book looks at five concepts whose dominion has increased, steadily, during the bourgeois period of modernity: Labor, Time, Property, Value, and Crisis. These ruling ideas are central not only to many academic disciplines— from philosophy and law to the political, social, and economic sciences— but also to everyday life.
The concepts that organize our thinking wield, by virtue of this fact, a great deal of political power. This book looks at five concepts whose dominion has increased, steadily, during the bourgeois period of modernity: Labor, Time, Property, Value, and Crisis. These ruling ideas are central not only to many academic disciplines— from philosophy and law to the political, social, and economic sciences— but also to everyday life.
These ruling ideas explain the cultural attitudes of boredom and multitasking, revealing the inescapable internalized consciousness of time that has become a mode of political domination. They also explain the terrifying environmental problem of privatized property in water and the terrifying humanitarian problem of privatized property in human bodies and body parts. Finally, they explain the affective dimensions of the housing crisis, and especially why capitalism cultivates the desire to own a home that is beyond one’s means.
These ruling ideas explain the cultural attitudes of boredom and multitasking, revealing the inescapable internalized consciousness of time that has become a mode of political domination. They also explain the terrifying environmental problem of privatized property in water and the terrifying humanitarian problem of privatized property in human bodies and body parts. Finally, they explain the affective dimensions of the housing crisis, and especially why capitalism cultivates the desire to own a home that is beyond one’s means.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Labor
Political Ontology
The Category “Labor”
Labor1: Ontology of the Self
Labor2: Historical Mode of Activity
Labor3: Category of Capitalist Modernity
Conclusion: On Work and Identity
Chapter 2: Time
Abstract Time as a System of Domination
Bourgeois Temporal Norms
Resistances to Temporal Domination
Rebellions against Temporal Domination
Complicity with Temporal Domination
Conclusion: Social Class and Temporality
Chapter 3: Property
Bourgeois Property and Ownership
Is Water Property?
Is Your Body Property?
Conclusion: Does Property Help or Harm Us?
Chapter 4: Value
Use Value, Bourgeois Value, and The Work of Retrieval
The Paradox of Value
Imagining Value
On Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx
Conclusion: Labor’s Exchange Value
Chapter 5: Crisis
Political Economy
Recurrence of Crisis
Fall in the Rate of Profit
The 2008 Economic Crisis and the False Desire of Home Ownership
Conclusion: Crisis Writ Large
Chapter 1: Labor
Political Ontology
The Category “Labor”
Labor1: Ontology of the Self
Labor2: Historical Mode of Activity
Labor3: Category of Capitalist Modernity
Conclusion: On Work and Identity
Chapter 2: Time
Abstract Time as a System of Domination
Bourgeois Temporal Norms
Resistances to Temporal Domination
Rebellions against Temporal Domination
Complicity with Temporal Domination
Conclusion: Social Class and Temporality
Chapter 3: Property
Bourgeois Property and Ownership
Is Water Property?
Is Your Body Property?
Conclusion: Does Property Help or Harm Us?
Chapter 4: Value
Use Value, Bourgeois Value, and The Work of Retrieval
The Paradox of Value
Imagining Value
On Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx
Conclusion: Labor’s Exchange Value
Chapter 5: Crisis
Political Economy
Recurrence of Crisis
Fall in the Rate of Profit
The 2008 Economic Crisis and the False Desire of Home Ownership
Conclusion: Crisis Writ Large