W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society

by Andrew Douglas

Competition and competitiveness are roundly celebrated as public values and key indicators of a dynamic and forward-thinking society. But the headlong embrace of competitive market principles, increasingly prevalent in our neoliberal age, often obscures the enduring divisiveness of a society set up to produce winners and losers. In this inspired and thoughtfully argued book, Andrew J. Douglas turns to the later writings of W. E. B. Du Bois to reevaluate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820355097
• ISBN13: 9780820355092
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"