Middle Class: An Intellectual History through Social Sciences

An American Fetish from its Origins to Globalization

AvBattistini Matteo

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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According to Matteo Battistini, The 'middle class' has become a fetish forged by the social sciences to legitimize American capitalism. In this invaluable monograph, Battistini traces the intellectual history of the middle class, and offers a social history of the political concept, whose specific scientific content has acquired an ideological centrality in the U.S. that has no equal in European history. Middle Class argues that the social sciences have freed the middle class from its historical relationship with work in an attempt to emancipate it from the tension into which it was continually dragged by class conflict. In the process, the social sciences overtun the image of opposing forces of labour and capital, replacing it with an image of a consensual order whereby capitalism and democracy can coexist without tensions.Originally published as Storia di un feticcio. La classe media americana dalle origini alla globalizzazione, by Mimesis, Milan, Italy, 2020.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-07-28
Mått:152 x 228 x 12 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Antal sidor:217
Förlag:Haymarket Books
ISBN:9798888900079

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Matteo Battistini is Professor of U.S. History at the University of Bologna. He has published monographs and articles on American political and intellectual history, including Karl Marx and the Global History of the American Civil War.

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PrefaceAcknowledgments1 The Middle Class between History and Social Sciences1 The (Lower) English Middle Class2 Bourgeoise and Classe Moyenne3 Mittelstand and Neuer Mittelstand4 Crossing the Atlantic2 The American Middle Class A Taken-for-Granted History?1 The Middle Class as a Historiographic Category2 The Middle Class as a Sociological Problem3 The Middle Class of Progressivism4 Brain Workers of the World, Unite!3 The Middle Class as Historical Project1 The Demiurge of the Middle Class2 The New Deal for the Middle Class3 The Crisis of the Middle Class4 The Ideological Battle for the Middle Class5 The Middle Class as Political Concept4 The Rise and Fall of a Fetish1 The Middle Class of Liberalism2 The Movement against the Middle Class3 The New Class of Neoconservatism (and Neoliberalism)4 The Middle Class as a Figure of the Crisis (in Globalisation)ReferencesIndex