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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1137326816 ISBN 13: 9781137326812

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

It is clear that the world is in conflict about the status (quo) of capital. Living With Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture addresses and reflects upon the many different ways in which and through which we find ourselves struggling, surviving, and thriving today. The contributors offers diverse considerations, 'ethnophilosophies,' about the force, subtleties, and consequences of the many different ways that capitalism, wealth, and poverty continue to dominate our lives and influence our sense of identity, our understanding of material culture, and our continued maintenance of class status. Following the current debates about wealth and class and the longing for a new discursive engagement with this historically defined concept, they examine the social and cultural phenomena of class from a uniquely innovative philosophical approach and reconsider certain philosophical "givens" within the context of culture in the broadest sense of the word, experientially and theoretically.

About this title

About the Author:

Ron Scapp is the founding director of the Graduate Program in Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, USA, where he is also Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Teaching Values: Critical Perspectives on Education, Politics, and Culture. He is president of the National Association for Ethnic Studies and the editor of the journal Ethnic Studies Review.

Brian Seitz is Professor of Philosophy at Babson College, USA. He is the author of The Trace of Political Representation, co-author of The Iroquois and the Athenians: A Political Ontology (with Thomas Thorp), and co-editor with Ron Scapp of Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance, and Reality; Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary Comportment; and Eating Culture.

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: 1137326816
• ISBN 13: 9781137326812
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Scapp R., Seitz B.