Capitalism and Nothingness
Critical Theory in Unwanted Times
$38.75
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
20 March 2025
Summary
Drawing on Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt and a variety of other critical social philosophers, this book introduces us to a familiar character amid the wreckage of the post-pandemic economy: no-dimensional man. A cousin of Marcuse’s one-dimensional man, they are a figure so compressed by the unending present of capitalism that they have ceased to be genuinely present in any ethical or political sense.
This is Peter Fleming’s brilliant analysis of the psychological and institutional mechanism…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350441873 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350441872 |
| Author: | Peter Fleming |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 20 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 138mm x 214mm |
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Critics Review
Splicing genres to brilliant effect, Peter Fleming’s critically fuelled revolutionary pessimism delivers shards of humour in the midst of a world ruined by feckless managers and gormless agents of industry. Capitalism and Nothingness furnishes diagrams of scenario planning grafted to the shadow of the apocalypse. * Ned Rossiter, Professor of Communication and Director of Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia *
Peter Fleming
Peter Fleming is a Professor in the Management Discipline Group at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
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