Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137326786 ISBN 13: 9781137326782

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wealth and class, the contributors address the social and cultural phenomena of class from a uniquely innovative philosophical approach and reconsider philosophical "givens" within the context of culture.

About this title

About the Author:

Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA M. Lane Bruner, Georgia State University, USA Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College, USA Jon Dietrick, Babson College, USA Emily M. Drew, Willamette University, USA Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University, Canada Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA Dick Howard, Stony Brook University, USA Ted Kafala, College of Mount Saint Vincent, USA Kristin Lawler, College of Mount Saint Vincent, USA Pepi Leistyna, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Lisa Nel, independent scholar Ann Neumann, Drew University, USA Ravi K. Perry, Mississippi State University, USA Yasmiyn Irizarry, Mississippi State University, USA Timothy J. Fair, Mississippi State University, USA Raśl Rubio, John Jay College of the City University of New York, USA Thomas Thorp, Saint Xavier University, USA bell hooks, independent scholar

Review:

"That class is an exceedingly and evermore complex phenomenon is hardly a reason to ignore its importance as a category for understanding society, either in national frameworks or in the world as a whole. There were very good reasons why other categories, such as race, gender, and sexuality, came to the fore in recent decades, one of these reasons being the difficulties in hitherto-existing paradigms to understand modes of production in all of their diverse materiality. The essays in this important book show well how class, complexified, remains crucial to not only understanding the world, but indeed to changing it." - Bill Martin, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137326786
• ISBN 13: 9781137326782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Scapp R., Seitz B.