Living Through Capitalism

Resisting Devastation Through Communities of Life

AvJames A. Chamberlain

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This book explores how capitalism uses and abuses life, and presents communities of life as a practical means of resistance. In particular, the book shows how capitalism exploits life's capacity for self-production across myriad species, enlists us in environmentally damaging behaviour, inflicts immense physical and mental suffering in unjust and avoidable ways, and undermines the ethical quality of life for all. The best chance to find meaning in this context, James A. Chamberlain argues, is resistance, and the affirmation of communities of life. The book proposes eight theses on communities of life, including: the orientation of communities of life to satisfy the needs of all beings that constitute them, and to the growth of life rather than economic growth; the abolition of private property in favour of various forms of shared ownership; post-work politics; and the need to recognize the interdependence of life to enact multi-species communities.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:450 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Horizons
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399552745

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James A. Chamberlain is Associate Professor of Political Science at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work (Cornell University Press, 2018) and co-editor, with Albena Azmanova, of Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy: Critical Debates (Springer, 2022). Also with Azmanova, he co-founded and co-edits the open access journal Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis. He has published several articles on borders, migration, and cosmopolitanism in journals such as Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, and Constellations.

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This is an expansive and ambitious book. Working productively across traditions, including analytic Marxism, Marxist feminism, eco-socialism, continental philosophy, and critical theory, Chamberlain makes a compelling case for the myriad ways that capitalism undermines and destroys human and non-human life and charts a hopeful path for resistance and social transformation.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Living Through Capitalism—Between Despair and Naive OptimismChapter 1. Capitalism as ExploitationChapter 2. Life as Self-production: How Capitalism Uses Life and Inhibits Its DevelopmentChapter 3. Oblivion and Productivism: Capitalism and Environmental CrisisChapter 4. Vital Siphoning: Capitalism and Global Health InjusticeChapter 5. The Good Life? A Husk of Meaning and Complicity in InjusticeConclusion: Eight Theses on Communities of LifeReferencesIndex