Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking

Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking proposes a historical materialist ethic of human flourishing understood in terms of the practice of citizenship. It focuses on the ways in which capitalism¿s necessary mode of thinking ¿ analytical thinking ¿ impedes the nurturing of capabilities for citizenship as understood from a Marxian-Aristotelian point of view. It includes a systematic discussion of the Aristotelian resonances in Marx¿s critique of capitalism, as well as an elaboration and critique of Alfred Sohn-Rethel¿s account of the origins of analytical thinking in his book Intellectual and Manual Labor: A Critique of Epistemology.