World's new princedoms
Subtitle: critical remarks on claimed alternatives by new life worlds writings on philosophy and economy of power
By: Peter Herrmann
Series: European Diversity Series -- 5; European Diversity Series -- 5.
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789036102223
Description: The way we view the world, envisage possibilities for social change and strive for improvement in the quality of life is highly complex, with significant challenges in rapidly changing landscapes of the 21st century. This book, edited by Herrmann and with contributions from Earles and Kratzwald, revisits, with fresh insight, key sociological, philosophical, political and cultural theoretical frameworks of relevance to contemporary globalised world. The book is thought-provoking in its central thesis which posits that there is a tendency for the 're-feudalisation' of production and reproduction and where economics is enmeshed with all elements of social life. Herrmann takes us on a journey of revisiting the concept of citizenship, that all important, and yet unclear concept. We are confronted with how citizenship is redefined in the face of modern globalised capitalism where the state is an instrument of global economics.