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Record Nr.

UNINA9910633943603321

Autore

Curtis Neal

Titolo

Idiotism [[electronic resource] ] : capitalism and the privatisation of life / / Neal Curtis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Pluto, 2012

ISBN

1-84964-789-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (189 p.))

Disciplina

306.342

Soggetti

Neoliberalism - Social aspects

Capitalism - Social aspects

Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Idiotism examines the condition of society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new 'common sense', taken as the model for the organisation and management of all aspects of social life. Using the Greek word idios, meaning 'private', Neal Curtis calls this privatisation of the world 'idiotism'.Constructing a new vocabulary with which to understand contemporary society, Curtis examines 'idiotism' across the spheres of economics, politics and culture, drawing on the philosophy and political theories of Martin Heidegger, Louis Althusser, Franco Berardi, Jacques Ranciere and Cornelius Castoriadis. Idiotism recasts our conception of the new neoliberal 'common sense', presenting it as not simply a case of false consciousness, but an ontological problem related to our being-in-the-world.