Living with Class [electronic resource] : Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture /
Scapp, R.editor.
Seitz, B.editor.
A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wealth and class, the contributors address the social and cultural phenomena of class from a uniquely innovative philosophical approach and reconsider philosophical "givens" within the context of culture.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Working Class; 1 Class Dismissed: The Issue Is Accountability; 2 Letter from a Lovelorn Pre-Radical: Looking Forward and Backward at Martin Luther King Jr.; 3 In Search of a New Left, Then and Now; 4 The Status of Class; 5 "Fix the Tired": Cultural Politics and the Struggle for Shorter Hours; 6 Literary and Real-Life Salesmen and the Performance of Class; 7 Money Changes Everything? African American Class-Based Attitudes toward LGBT Issues; 8 Democracy without Class: Investigating the Political Unconscious of the United States
9 Re-Forming Class: Identity, Wealth, and Cultural Transformation in South Africa10 Whiteness as Currency: Rethinking the Exchange Rate; 11 Dying with Class: Race, Religion, and the Commodification of a Good Death; 12 New Materialisms and Digital Culture: Productive Labor and the Software Wars; 13 Feminist Theory and the Critique of Class; 14 Criminal Class; 15 Consuming Class: Identity and Power through the Commodification of Bourgeois Culture, Celebrity, and Glamour; 16 When Prosperity Is Built on Poverty, There Can Be No Foundation for Peace, as Poverty and Peace Don't Stand Hand in Hand
17 Solon the Athenian and the Origins of Class Struggle18 Memories of Class and Youth in the Age of Disposability; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wealth and class, the contributors address the social and cultural phenomena of class from a uniquely innovative philosophical approach and reconsider philosophical "givens" within the context of culture.
Social sciences
Economic theory.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Political economy.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
International Political Economy.
Social Philosophy.