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Care and capitalism : why affective equality matters for social justice / Kathleen Lynch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2022Description: x, 302 pages : illustration ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781509543847
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 303.372 LYN 23 023398
Contents:
Introduction Care and capitalism : matters of social justice and resistance Part I. Care matters inside and outside capitalism. Care as abject : capitalism, masculinity, bureaucracy, class and race Making love : love labour as distinctive and non-commodifiable Time to care Part II. Challenges. Liberalism, care and neoliberalism Individualism and capitalism : from personalized salvation to human capitals Care-harming ideologies of capitalism : competition, measurement and meritocratic myths Part III. Violence - the nemesis of care. The violation of non-human animals Violence and capitalism Part IV. Conclusions. Resisting intellectually, politically, culturally and educationally Postscript: Care lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
Summary: The logics and ethics of neoliberal capitalism dominate public discourses and politics in the early twenty-first century. They morally endorse and institutionalize forms of competitive self-interest that jettison social justice values, and are deeply antithetical to love, care and solidarity. But capitalism is neither invincible nor inevitable. While people are self-interested, they are not purely self-interested: they are bound affectively and morally to others, even to unknown others. The cares, loves and solidarity relationships within which people are engaged give them direction and purpose in their daily lives. They constitute cultural residuals of hope that stand ready to move humanity beyond a narrow capitalism-centric set of values. In this instructive and inspiring book, Kathleen Lynch sets out to reclaim the language of love, care and solidarity both intellectually and politically and to place it at the heart of contemporary discourse. Her goal is to help unseat capital at the gravitational centre of meaning-making and value, thereby helping to create logics and ethical priorities for politics that are led by care, love and solidarity. --
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-287) and index.

Introduction
Care and capitalism : matters of social justice and resistance
Part I. Care matters inside and outside capitalism. Care as abject : capitalism, masculinity, bureaucracy, class and race
Making love : love labour as distinctive and non-commodifiable
Time to care
Part II. Challenges. Liberalism, care and neoliberalism
Individualism and capitalism : from personalized salvation to human capitals
Care-harming ideologies of capitalism : competition, measurement and meritocratic myths
Part III. Violence - the nemesis of care. The violation of non-human animals
Violence and capitalism
Part IV. Conclusions. Resisting intellectually, politically, culturally and educationally
Postscript: Care lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic

The logics and ethics of neoliberal capitalism dominate public discourses and politics in the early twenty-first century. They morally endorse and institutionalize forms of competitive self-interest that jettison social justice values, and are deeply antithetical to love, care and solidarity. But capitalism is neither invincible nor inevitable. While people are self-interested, they are not purely self-interested: they are bound affectively and morally to others, even to unknown others. The cares, loves and solidarity relationships within which people are engaged give them direction and purpose in their daily lives. They constitute cultural residuals of hope that stand ready to move humanity beyond a narrow capitalism-centric set of values. In this instructive and inspiring book, Kathleen Lynch sets out to reclaim the language of love, care and solidarity both intellectually and politically and to place it at the heart of contemporary discourse. Her goal is to help unseat capital at the gravitational centre of meaning-making and value, thereby helping to create logics and ethical priorities for politics that are led by care, love and solidarity. --

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