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Description of  Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking: A Marxian-Aristotelian Linguistic Account (Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism))

Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking proposes a historical materialist ethic of human flourishing understood in terms of the practice of citizenship. It focuses on the ways in which capitalisms necessary mode of thinking analytical thinking impedes the nurturing of capabilities for citizenship as understood from a Marxian-Aristotelian point of view. It includes a systematic discussion of the Aristotelian resonances in Marxs critique of capitalism, as well as an elaboration and critique of Alfred Sohn-Rethels account of the origins of analytical thinking in his book Intellectual and Manual Labor: A Critique of Epistemology. Read more