Depoliticization
The Political Imaginary of Global Capitalism
A part of the series NSU-press , and the subject area Philosophy
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Edited by
J.F. Humphrey and
Ingerid S. Straume
With contributions by
Johann P. Arnason,
Kåre Blinkenberg,
D.T. Cochrane,
J.F. Humphrey,
Mogens Chrom Jacobsen,
Anders Lundkvist,
Håvard Friis Nilsen and
Ingerid S. Straume
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Depoliticization: The Political Imaginary of Global Capitalism follows in the path blazed by Hannah Arendt and Cornelius Castoriadis, where politics is seen as a mode of freedom; the possibility for individuals to consciously and explicitly create the institutions of their own societies. Starting with such problem as: What is capital? How can we characterize the dominant economic system? What are the conditions for its existence, and how can we create alternatives?, the articles examine the central institutions of modern Western societies, market capitalism, representative liberal democracy, and science. To elucidate the problem of depoliticization, the authors engage a number of thinkers from Karl Marx, Max Weber, Thorstein Veblen to Cornelius Castoriadis, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, and Stanley Kubrick.
