V. K. Ramachandran (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198286479
- eISBN:
- 9780191684524
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198286479.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter focuses on the development of the productive forces in agriculture: changes in irrigation and cropping patterns. It also examines the trends in work participation in the Cumbum Valley in ...
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This chapter focuses on the development of the productive forces in agriculture: changes in irrigation and cropping patterns. It also examines the trends in work participation in the Cumbum Valley in Tamil Nadu, as well as the changes in agricultural technique in the 1960s and after.Less
This chapter focuses on the development of the productive forces in agriculture: changes in irrigation and cropping patterns. It also examines the trends in work participation in the Cumbum Valley in Tamil Nadu, as well as the changes in agricultural technique in the 1960s and after.
Denise Meyerson
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198248194
- eISBN:
- 9780191681073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198248194.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter shows that the best way to understand the determination of ideological beliefs by economic relationships is to see ideological beliefs as explained by their serviceability. According to ...
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This chapter shows that the best way to understand the determination of ideological beliefs by economic relationships is to see ideological beliefs as explained by their serviceability. According to Marx, the nature of its forces of production or its productive forces is of primary importance in any human society. This chapter cites the relations of production and the superstructure. The most obvious way to construe Marx's materialist claim is that economic structure of society and the dominant ideology are related as ordinary cause and effect. The chapter also argues that the Middle Ages could not live soley upon Catholicism. Engels wanted to retain the notion of causation at the base but dilute the thesis of its primacy. Lastly, this chapter explains useful beliefs according to their usefulness.Less
This chapter shows that the best way to understand the determination of ideological beliefs by economic relationships is to see ideological beliefs as explained by their serviceability. According to Marx, the nature of its forces of production or its productive forces is of primary importance in any human society. This chapter cites the relations of production and the superstructure. The most obvious way to construe Marx's materialist claim is that economic structure of society and the dominant ideology are related as ordinary cause and effect. The chapter also argues that the Middle Ages could not live soley upon Catholicism. Engels wanted to retain the notion of causation at the base but dilute the thesis of its primacy. Lastly, this chapter explains useful beliefs according to their usefulness.
Dimitris Vardoulakis (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816672806
- eISBN:
- 9781452946887
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816672806.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
What does it mean to think about, and with, Spinoza today? This book asserts the importance of Spinoza’s philosophy of immanence for contemporary cultural and philosophical debates. Engaging with ...
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What does it mean to think about, and with, Spinoza today? This book asserts the importance of Spinoza’s philosophy of immanence for contemporary cultural and philosophical debates. Engaging with Spinoza’s insistence on the centrality of the passions as the site of the creative and productive forces shaping society, this book critiques the impulse to transcendence and regimes of mastery, exposing universal values as illusory. The book pursues Spinoza’s challenge to abandon the temptation to think through the prism of death in order to arrive at a truly liberatory notion of freedom. The chapters here extend the Spinozan project beyond the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy to encompass all forms of life-affirming activity, including the arts and literature. The chapters, taken together, suggest that “Spinoza now” is not so much a statement about a “truth” that Spinoza’s writings can reveal to us in our present situation. It is, rather, the injunction to adhere to the attitude that affirms both necessity and impossibility.Less
What does it mean to think about, and with, Spinoza today? This book asserts the importance of Spinoza’s philosophy of immanence for contemporary cultural and philosophical debates. Engaging with Spinoza’s insistence on the centrality of the passions as the site of the creative and productive forces shaping society, this book critiques the impulse to transcendence and regimes of mastery, exposing universal values as illusory. The book pursues Spinoza’s challenge to abandon the temptation to think through the prism of death in order to arrive at a truly liberatory notion of freedom. The chapters here extend the Spinozan project beyond the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy to encompass all forms of life-affirming activity, including the arts and literature. The chapters, taken together, suggest that “Spinoza now” is not so much a statement about a “truth” that Spinoza’s writings can reveal to us in our present situation. It is, rather, the injunction to adhere to the attitude that affirms both necessity and impossibility.
Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816674510
- eISBN:
- 9781452947594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816674510.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
The terms intellectual and intelligentsia describe those who possess credentials that entitle them to perform types of work that entail the use of academically derived knowledge. Much of the debate ...
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The terms intellectual and intelligentsia describe those who possess credentials that entitle them to perform types of work that entail the use of academically derived knowledge. Much of the debate regarding the class position of intellectuals has centered on whether intellectuals are inevitably linked to the core classes of any social formation. This chapter argues that although intellectuals remain subordinated to the moneyed class, they are more capable than other subordinated classes to mount resistance and thereby assert their own demands due to their unique position in the technologically advanced labor process. It is not only their control over productive forces that marks intellectuals as an emerging class, but also the fact that they have developed an independent culture of critical discourse.Less
The terms intellectual and intelligentsia describe those who possess credentials that entitle them to perform types of work that entail the use of academically derived knowledge. Much of the debate regarding the class position of intellectuals has centered on whether intellectuals are inevitably linked to the core classes of any social formation. This chapter argues that although intellectuals remain subordinated to the moneyed class, they are more capable than other subordinated classes to mount resistance and thereby assert their own demands due to their unique position in the technologically advanced labor process. It is not only their control over productive forces that marks intellectuals as an emerging class, but also the fact that they have developed an independent culture of critical discourse.
