Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This figure of masculine authority persisted from the Medieval period to orchestrate what is called here Manorial Capitalism. The second examines the exploitation and alienation that epitomize the logic of capitalism from the plantation economy to the present. And the third deploys retroactively the logic of dividuation to the plantation, a logic that draws its inspiration from neoliberal financial capitalism as well as from anthropological accounts (which distinguish the dividual from the Cartesian-Kantian individual). This book argues that reducing individuals to dividuated components continues to enable a dehumanizing capitalist mindset to fixate on abstracted labor power rather than seeing laboring individuals.
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"There is a rare combination of rich historical depth and philosophical critique throughout this groundbreaking book. Part intellectual history and philosophy, part sociology and economic theory-this is insurgent interdisciplinarity at its finest. In an academic world where people talk incessantly about being 'critical', Sassower's scholarship actualizes it. He is a philosopher wielding the pen of a poet."
Reiland Rabaka, author of Du Bois: A Critical Introduction (University of Colorado, Boulder)
"Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and The Logic of Dividuation explores the impossibly complex and elusive capitalist logics that are imbricated with the institution of slavery. Three interrelated questions serve to evoke the complexity of the imbrication: the historical afterlife of certain manorial relations of domination; the nature of enslavement enabled by the form of exploitation specific to capitalism; and the abstraction of the individual necessary to slavery as illuminated by a reading of Deleuze's logic of 'dividuation'. In its engagement with an extraordinary range of scholarship, the book offers an essential contribution to the understanding of slavery and capitalism, and, at the same time, a model of how exciting a generous interdisciplinary study can be."
Elizabeth Weed, author of Reading the Impossible: Sexual Difference, Critique, and the Stamp of History (Brown University)
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Höhe: 240 mm
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978-1-032-75264-8 (9781032752648)
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Raphael Sassower is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of several books, most recently, The Specter of Hypocrisy (2020) and The Quest for Prosperity: Reframing Political Economy (2017).
Introduction Part I Manorial Capitalism Chapter 1: The Paternal Figure (or Father Complex) as the Site of Power Relations Chapter 2: Incorporation into the Political Economy Canon Part II Enslavement Chapter 3: Exploitation as the Constitutive Feature of Capitalism Chapter 4: The Afterlives of American Enslavement Part IIIThe Logic of Dividuation Chapter 5 The Dividual, the Individual, and the Loss of Social Fabric Chapter 6 The Fractured Human Being By Way of Concluding
