History in Financial Times

by Amin Samman

Book Overview

Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place. This book argues that the linear mode of thinking misses something crucial about the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Rather than each present leaving a set past behind it, the past continually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503609456
• ISBN13: 9781503609457
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"