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Capitalist sorcery : breaking the spell / Phillipe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers ; translated and edited by Andrew Goffey.
Van Pelt Library JZ1318 .P513 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pignarre, Philippe.
- Standardized Title:
- Sorcellerie capitaliste. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-globalization movement.
- Globalization.
- Capitalism.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 159 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Summary:
- "An English translation of La Sorcellerie Capitaliste - a passionate but pragmatic critique in political philosophy. It diagnoses capitalism as a 'system of sorcery without sorcerers'. Capitalism paralyses us in ways that resembles sorcery and the book is concerned to look at ways we might defend ourselves against such a system"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- Acknowledgements
- PART I: WHAT HAPPENED?
- Inheriting from Seattle
- What Are We Dealing With?
- Daring to be Pragmatic
- Infernal Alternatives
- Minions
- PART II: LEARNING TO PROTECT ONESELF
- Do You Believe in Sorcery?
- Leaving Safe Ground
- Marx Again...
- To Believe in Progress No Longer?
- Learning Fright
- PART III: HOW TO GET A HOLD?
- Thanks to Seattle?
- The Trajectory of an Apprenticeship
- Fostering New Connections
- Sorry, but we have to
- Reactivating History
- PART IV: NEEDING PEOPLE TO THINK
- A Cry
- Interstices
- Ecosophy
- Political Creation
- Empowerment
- Reclaim
- Above All, Not to Conclude
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230237629
- 0230237622
- OCLC:
- 696318431
- Online:
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