Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking: A Marxian-Aristotelian Linguistic Account

by Kathryn Dean

Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking proposes a historical materialist ethic of human flourishing understood in terms of the practice of citizenship. It focuses on the ways in which capitalism's necessary mode of thinking - analytical thinking - impedes the nurturing of capabilities for citizenship as understood from a Marxian-Aristotelian point of view. It includes a systematic discussion of the Aristotelian resonances in Marx's critique...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415553504
• ISBN13: 9780415553506
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"