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 of
capitalism, as well as an elaboration and critique of Alfred
Sohn-Rethel s account of the origins of analytical thinking in his
book Intellectual and Manual Labor: A Critique of Epistemology.
Dean's critique of this book draws on the language theories of
Lev Vygotsky, Alexander Luria, Jack Goody, Eric Havelock and Walter
Ong, so as to identify the origins of analytical thinking in
literacy rather than in monetised exchange relations, as claimed by
Sohn-Rethel. Having traced the development of analytical thinking
so as to bring out the ways in which this thinking was a condition
of possibility for the division of head and hand in
nineteenth-century England, Dean brings the analysis into the
contemporary world by examining the changes effected by digitalised
communication in terms citizenship capabilities now, drawing on the
work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in order to do so.
The book's ground-breaking content is in the fusion of Marxian,
Aristotelian and linguistic elements to develop a critique of
capitalism s hegemonic mode of thinking (analytical thinking) as
manifested in the modern sciences and to show how the draining of
intelligibility from the everyday world permitted by this thinking
becomes an obstacle to the practice of meaningful citizenship.
Its main appeal will be to Marxist thinkers whose main concern
is with the alienating, as opposed to exploitative, character of
capitalist modes of life. It is written to complement the work of
such Marxists, these being, in the main, writers such as Michael
Hardt and Antonio Negri and is pitched at researchers in the field.
It could be used on post-graduate courses in political theory, as
well as social and cultural theory. "
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