Profitable Ideas: The Ideology of the Individual in Capitalist Development (Studies in Critical Social Sciences (Brill Academic))

O*Flynn, PH D Micheal

ISBN 10: 900417804X / ISBN 13: 9789004178045

Published by Brill, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Profitable Ideas: The Ideology of the Individual in Capitalist Development (Studies in Critical Social Sciences (Brill Academic))
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900417804X
• ISBN 13: 9789004178045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Scholarly attempts to explain the development of liberal individualism over the course of modern history have tended to focus on key principles and doctrines. The emergence and spread of individualist ideas has been scrutinised to an extent, but with insufficient attention to the manner in which they have been bound up with the opportunities and obstacles to accumulation at different stages of capitalist development. To this end this book shows that as the capitalist system develops, continuously generating new interests and societal conflicts, the theories, doctrines and moral precepts comprising liberal individualism change and evolve, while its vital social function is preserved.

About the Author

Micheal O'Flynn, Ph.D. (2005) in Philosophy, University of Limerick, is an Associated Lecturer in Social Science with the Open University and teaches sociology part-time at the University of Limerick. He has published articles for Critique: Journal of Socialist Ideas, EU Reporter and book reviews for Review of Radical Political Economy and Millennium.