THE TRAGEDY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT by Tim Di Muzio ( 9781783487141 )

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THE TRAGEDY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
A GENEALOGY OF CAPITAL AS POWER

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Tim Di Muzio

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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNATIONAL

Pub. date:

16 December, 2017

Pages:

224

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Exploring key moments in the historical development of humanity, this book conceives of human development as a dramatic tragedy. It examines avoidable sufferings in our history, considering the reasons why these sufferings were inflicted and enabled when they appear - from a certain angle - to beunnecessary.

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How might an objective observer conceive of what humans have accomplished as a species? We have organized wars, presided over the mass extinction of other species, and wrought environmental devastation by deforestation and the extraction of Earth's resources. But human development has also been a story of betterment and progress. Is there an alternative story to tell between these two opposed narratives?This book advances the idea of tragedy to explore the notion that human creativity and potential has been incapacitated by the establishment of power differential and the unequal accumulation of money as a force of dominant power. Using the Brechtian notion of epic theatre, which aims at questioning orunsettling the familiar, the book is divided into a series of Acts, rather than chapters, which each deal with a particular moment in history wherein we can see another major step in the evolution of petro-market civilization. The book engages scholarly literature to flesh out how we might conceive of the .story of human development as a tragedy of capital as power

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