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

By Gavin Smith

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2014
ISBN
178238300X, 9781782383000
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1497503 bytes)
Series
Counter-) Politics: Essays in Historical Realism (Dislocations
Pages
241\255
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-07-02 12:11:56

Description

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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