Idiotism

Neal Curtis

Description

Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new ‘common sense’.



Using the Greek word idios, meaning 'private', Neal Curtis calls this privatisation of the world ‘idiotism’. Through constructing a new vocabulary with which to understand our society, Curtis examines 'idiotism' across the spheres of economics, politics and culture, drawing on the philosophy and political theories of Martin Heidegger, Louis Althusser, Franco Berardi, Jacques Rancière and Cornelius Castoriadis.



This book recasts our conception of the new privatised world's 'common sense', presenting it as not simply a case of false consciousness, but an problem related to our own existence.



1. Enclosing the World, or Idiotism

2. The Ideology of Idiotism

3. Idiotism and Economics

4. Idiotism and Politics

5. Idiotism and Culture

6. Opening the World, or Democracy

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Sujets

• Philosophie politique
• Martin Heidegger
• Milton Friedman
• Ayn Rand
• Jacques Rancière
• Labor
• Richard Sennett
• General
• David Harvey
• Capitalism
• Economics
• Politics
• Social class
• Political economy
• Cultural studies
• General officer
• Philosophy
• Sociology
• Jacques Ranciere
• Philosophie et théologie
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Political
• Political Ideologies

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 09 novembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781849647892
• Langue: English

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