Capitalism and Citizenship The Impossible Partnership

Can capitalism and citizenship co-exist? In recent years advocates of the Third Way have championed the idea of public-spirited capitalism as the antidote to the many problems confronting the modern world. This book develops a multi-disciplinary theory of citizenship exploring the human abilities needed for its practice. It then argues that capitalism impedes the nurturing of these abilities. In advancing these arguments, Kathryn Dean draws on the work of a wide range of thinkers including Freud, Marx, Lacan, Habermas and Castells.


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Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I:Theoretical Foundations
1. Human Nature:Indeterminate and Indeterminable
2. Capitalism:Culture of Worldlessness

Part II:The Bourgeois Public Sphere
3. The Worldly World of the Bourgeois Subject
4. Parenting and the Constitution of Bourgeois Sensus Communis

Part III:From Place to Space:The Death of Worldliness
5. The Institution of Commodity Fetishism
6. Abstract Labor and the Network Society
7. Abstract Consumption and the Dissolution of the Ego
8. Abstract Knowledge:Disorganized Capitalism and the Vicissitudes of Science

Conclusion
Citizenship and the Recovery of Worldliness

Notes
Bibliography

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Appropriate Courses

Social Theory, Sociology of Economics, Political Theory

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