What's Left of the World (eBook)

Education, Identity and the Post-Work Political Imagination

David J. Blacker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
264 Seiten
John Hunt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78904-011-1 (ISBN)

Infos

For long-term viability the left must move beyond identity emotivism and articulate a larger worldview.

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In 1960, Paul Goodman argued that the Fordist system that treated people as mere cogs in a machine had created a profound unhappiness in young people and in American society as a whole. More than half a century later, professor David Blacker recognizes that decades of neoliberalism have pushed young people beyond unhappiness and into a collective identity crisis. Overall, Americans no longer feel needed to do jobs that had previously anchored them in society and are becoming disconnected and purposeless. The proliferation of new identities, based not on work but on consumption, is symptomatic of neoliberalism and its hyper-commodification and deregulation of everyday life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.5.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Schlagworte: Automation • cogs in a machine • crisis of identity • Education • Fordist system • hyper-commodification of everyday life • idenity crisis • Identity • Kant • Kantian morality • Marxist theory • Neoliberalism • Paul Goodman • Philosophy • philosophy, politics, education, identity, post-work, political imagination, Fordist system, cogs in a machine, working machine, neoliberalism, idenity crisis, crisis of identity, hyper-commodification of everyday life, Marxist theory, Paul Goodman, automation, Kant, Kantian morality • political imagination • Politics • post-work • working machine
• ISBN-10: 1-78904-011-6 / 1789040116
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78904-011-1 / 9781789040111