The ruling ideas : bourgeois political concepts

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    • Wendling, Amy E.

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The ruling ideas : bourgeois political concepts

Amy E. Wendling

Lexington Books, c2012

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Bibliography: p. 121-125

Includes index

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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.

Table of Contents

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

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