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Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics : Essays in Historical Realism / Gavin Smith

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014

Online-Ressource (254 p)

Englisch

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Capital: Structural, Phenomenological, Financial; Chapter 2 - The Scales of Ethnography; Chapter 3 - Perspectives in Realist History; Chapter 4 - History's Absent Presence; Chapter 5 - History as Possibilities; Chapter 6 - Conditions of Possibility; Conclusion; References; Index

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978-1-78238-301-7 ( : 66.07 (TX))

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Intellectuals ; Political activity ; Ethnology ; Political aspects ; Social movements ; Protest movements ; Electronic books

Contemporary forms of capitalism and the state require close analytic attention to reveal the conditions of possibility for effective counter-politics. On the other hand the practice of collective politics needs to be studied through historical ethnography if we are to understand what might make people’s actions effective. This book suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. Gavin Smith opens and closes this series of interlinked essays by proposing a concise framework for untangling what he calls “the society of capital” and subsequently a potentially controversial way of seeing its contemporary features. This book tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.