The Ruling Ideas
Bourgeois Political Concepts- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2012
Summary
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.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2012
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-6600-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-6602-4
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 130
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Preface No access
- 1 Labor No access Pages 1 - 14
- 2 Time No access Pages 15 - 46
- 3 Property No access Pages 47 - 84
- 4 Value No access Pages 85 - 100
- 5 Crisis No access Pages 101 - 118
- References and Suggested Reading No access Pages 119 - 124
- Index No access Pages 125 - 130





