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Living with Class

Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture

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  1. Ron Scapp
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  2. Brian Seitz
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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Working Class

    • Ron Scapp, Brian Seitz
    Pages 1-5

  3. Class Dismissed: The Issue Is Accountability

    • bell hooks
    Pages 7-10

  4. Letter from a Lovelorn Pre-Radical: Looking Forward and Backward at Martin Luther King Jr.

    • Kevin Bruyneel
    Pages 11-24

  5. In Search of a New Left, Then and Now

    • Dick Howard
    Pages 25-31

  6. The Status of Class

    • Stanley Aronowitz
    Pages 33-35

  7. “Fix the Tired”: Cultural Politics and the Struggle for Shorter Hours

    • Kristin Lawler
    Pages 37-51

  8. Literary and Real-Life Salesmen and the Performance of Class

    • Jon Dietrick
    Pages 53-58

  9. Money Changes Everything? African American Class-Based Attitudes toward LGBT Issues

    • Ravi K. Perry, Yasmiyn Irizarry, Timothy J. Fair
    Pages 59-77

  10. Democracy without Class: Investigating the Political Unconscious of the United States

    • M. Lane Bruner
    Pages 79-90

  11. Re-Forming Class: Identity, Wealth, and Cultural Transformation in South Africa

    • Lisa Nel
    Pages 91-99

  12. Whiteness as Currency: Rethinking the Exchange Rate

    • Emily M. Drew
    Pages 101-105

  13. Dying with Class: Race, Religion, and the Commodification of a Good Death

    • Ann Neumann
    Pages 107-116

  14. New Materialisms and Digital Culture: Productive Labor and the Software Wars

    • Ted Kafala
    Pages 117-129

  15. Feminist Theory and the Critique of Class

    • Robin Truth Goodman
    Pages 131-143

  16. Criminal Class

    • Eric Anthamatten
    Pages 145-157

  17. Consuming Class: Identity and Power through the Commodification of Bourgeois Culture, Celebrity, and Glamour

    • Raúl Rubio
    Pages 159-167

  18. When Prosperity Is Built on Poverty, There Can Be No Foundation for Peace, as Poverty and Peace Don’t Stand Hand in Hand

    • Pepi Leistyna
    Pages 169-187

  19. Solon the Athenian and the Origins of Class Struggle

    • Thomas Thorp
    Pages 189-201

  20. Memories of Class and Youth in the Age of Disposability

    • Henry A. Giroux
    Pages 203-218
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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.

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"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 the authors

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 Raúl Rubio, John Jay College of the City University of New York, USA Thomas Thorp, Saint Xavier University, USA bell hooks, independent scholar

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