Neomedievalism : Reflections on the Post-Enlightenment Era / Jorge Majfud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Majfud, Jorge, author.

Series:

Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans ; Volume 149.

Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis Nord-Americans Series ; Volume 149

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--21st century.

Economic history.

Elite (Social sciences).

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Universitat de València, 2018.

System Details:

text file

EPUB

Summary:

Jorge Majfud reflects once again on the economic, political, and cultural realities of recent years, with «an outsider's view from the center»: the culture of masks of the United States' cultural industries and national unconscious, the hyper-fragmentation of the contemporary individual, the construction of reality through social narratives, the narrative dictated by the major social powers of money and the social castes who have taken us steadily toward a new form of feudalism, one no longer based on ownership of the land but of finance capital. In all of the essays that comprise this book, one can see the urgency of responding to the historical moment, to the specific events that have occurred over the past two decades, but with an unflinching effort to contextualize events within their greater historical framework. Because, as the author asserts, forgetting is one of the principal weapons of moral, social, and, ultimately, military violence.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from ePUB title page (Digitalia, viewed November 21, 2021)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9788491343172

8491343172

OCLC:

1287826426