The Hegemony of Common Sense
Subtitle: Wisdom And Mystification in Everyday Life (San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: August 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780820479279
Subjects: Political Ideologies - General; Philosophy; Politics / Current Events; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Political; Common sense
Description: "The Hegemony of Common Sense: Wisdom and Mystification in Everyday Life is a contribution to the study of class and consciousness. Dean Wolfe Manders revisits a question posed by Sombart a century ago: "Why is there no socialism in the United States of America?" To probe this question, he initiates a multi-method study of capital and class as cultural realities. Class, he contends, is insinuated in the fabric of "everyday-historical" experience, which people process via often contradictory "common sense" categories. Adapting themes from Gramsci, Marx, James, and Mead, Manders explores these categories from several angles. Particularly trenchant is his incisive inquiry into paroemiology, the study of popular sayings."--Jacket.