INTELLECTUALS AND (COUNTER-) POLITICS by Gavin Smith ( 9781782383000 )

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INTELLECTUALS AND (COUNTER-) POLITICS
ESSAYS IN HISTORICAL REALISM

By:

Gavin Smith

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178238300X

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BERGHAHN BOOKS

Pub. date:

8 April, 2014

Series:

Dislocations 12

Pages:

244

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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.

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