Ruling Ideas

Bourgeois Political Concepts

AvAmy E. Wendling

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-30
Mått:158 x 237 x 17 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:148
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739166000

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Amy E. Wendling is associate professor of philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Her first book Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation, was published by Palgrave Macmillan UK in 2009. She has, in addition, published numerous articles and given numerous lectures, both in the US and abroad. Herself a U.S. Fulbright Fellow to The Netherlands in 2003-4, Dr. Wendling now works with Creighton student applicants who have recently received Fulbright grants to Ecuador, Germany, and the Ukraine, among other places. Dr. Wendling is also involved in Creighton’s Renewable Energy Technology Program.

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In her engaging and engaged new book, Amy E. Wendling subjects five clusters of ‘ruling ideas’ in bourgeois societies to illuminating critiques. Probing the economic, political, social, and ethical implications of labor, time, property, value, and crisis, she locates these concepts historically, explores their ontological and epistemological underpinnings, and, in often surprising and thought-provoking ways, identifies their implications for everyday practices and large-scale crises. The author shows how ruling ideas are grounded in and transform social relations, are embodied and ingrained, provoke resistance and rebellion, and generate paradoxes and contradictions. The result is a powerful and accessible critique of ruling ideas and their role in sustaining inequality, domination, and injustice.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1: LaborPolitical OntologyThe Category “Labor”Labor1: Ontology of the SelfLabor2: Historical Mode of ActivityLabor3: Category of Capitalist ModernityConclusion: On Work and IdentityChapter 2: TimeAbstract Time as a System of DominationBourgeois Temporal NormsResistances to Temporal DominationRebellions against Temporal DominationComplicity with Temporal DominationConclusion: Social Class and TemporalityChapter 3: PropertyBourgeois Property and OwnershipIs Water Property?Is Your Body Property?Conclusion: Does Property Help or Harm Us?Chapter 4: ValueUse Value, Bourgeois Value, and The Work of RetrievalThe Paradox of ValueImagining ValueOn Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Karl MarxConclusion: Labor’s Exchange ValueChapter 5: CrisisPolitical EconomyRecurrence of CrisisFall in the Rate of ProfitThe 2008 Economic Crisis and the False Desire of Home OwnershipConclusion: Crisis Writ Large