James Livingston 
Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940 [EPUB ebook] 

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The rise of corporate capitalism was a cultural revolution as well as an economic event, according to James Livingston. That revolution resides, he argues, in the fundamental reconstruction of selfhood, or subjectivity, that attends the advent of an ‘age of surplus’ under corporate auspices. From this standpoint, consumer culture represents a transition to a society in which identities as well as incomes are not necessarily derived from the possession of productive labor or property. From the same standpoint, pragmatism and literary naturalism become ways of accommodating the new forms of solidarity and subjectivity enabled by the emergence of corporate capitalism. So conceived, they become ways of articulating alternatives to modern, possessive individualism. Livingston argues accordingly that the flight from pragmatism led by Lewis Mumford was an attempt to refurbish a romantic version of modern, possessive individualism. This attempt still shapes our reading of pragmatism, Livingston claims, and will continue to do so until we understand that William James was not merely a well-meaning middleman between Charles Peirce and John Dewey and that James’s pragmatism was both a working model of postmodern subjectivity and a novel critique of capitalism.

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James Livingston, professor of history at Rutgers University, is author of Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1913.

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 424 ● ISBN 9780807863039 ● Mărime fișier 3.1 MB ● Editura The University of North Carolina Press ● Oraș Chapel Hill ● Țară US ● Publicat 2000 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 5507688 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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