Capitalist sorcery
Subtitle: breaking the spell
By: Phillipe Pignarre, Isabella Stengers ; translated and edited by Andrew Goffey
Contributors: Stengers, Isabelle
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780230237629
Subjects: Anti-globalization movement; Globalization; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General; PHILOSOPHY / Social; PHILOSOPHY / Political; Capitalism
Work titles: Sorcellerie capitaliste
Description: "An English translation of La Sorcellerie Capitaliste - a passionate but pragmatic critique in political philosophy. It diagnoses capitalism as a 'system of sorcery without sorcerers'. Capitalism paralyses us in ways that resembles sorcery and the book is concerned to look at ways we might defend ourselves against such a system"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: PART I: WHAT HAPPENED?; title: Inheriting from Seattle; title: What Are We Dealing With?; title: Daring to be Pragmatic; title: Infernal Alternatives; title: Minions; title: PART II: LEARNING TO PROTECT ONESELF; title: Do You Believe in Sorcery?; title: Leaving Safe Ground; title: Marx Again...; title: To Believe in Progress No Longer?; title: Learning Fright; title: PART III: HOW TO GET A HOLD?; title: Thanks to Seattle?; title: The Trajectory of an Apprenticeship; title: Fostering New Connections; title: Sorry, but we have to; title: Reactivating History; title: PART IV: NEEDING PEOPLE TO THINK; title: A Cry; title: Interstices; title: Ecosophy; title: Political Creation; title: Empowerment; title: Reclaim; title: Above All, Not to Conclude; title: Index.