Anti-Capital: Human, Social and Cultural: The Mesmerising Misnomers

ISBN-13: 9780367601638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str.

Jacek Tittenbrun

Opis

Offering an in-depth, critical analysis of the concepts of human and social capital, as well as their surrounding theories, Anti-Capital: Human, Social and Cultural proposes an alternative theoretical framework, whilst better explaining the realities that they mask in economic terms. A rigorous exploration of the most popular forms of 'capital' in

Recenzje

’In Anti-Capital: Human, Social and Cultural, Tittenbrun unmasks this unholy trinity, showing that Bourdieu was wrong: trust and solidarity cannot be bought and we are not capitalist entrepreneurs when developing relationships. Engaging with Sandel, Skidelsky and Gorz, the author offers a comprehensive critique of these misnomers, promising to break the vicious hold of neoliberal ideologies on social imagination.’ Slawomir Magala, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands, and author of Class Struggle in Classless Poland 'It is worth taking some time to pay tribute to the potency of Tittenbrun’s critique. ... it must be said that the book does a wonderful job in getting its readers to stop and give the utility and merit of human, social, and cultural capitals a real hard think. The book aims for a readership somewhat knowledgeable of these concepts, but it will inform heavily - and critically - anyone who is interested in them. A rigorous engagement that is passionately written, Tittenbrun’s book certainly touches the core of theoretical debates over human, social, and cultural capital.' Sociological Research Online

Spis treści

Anti-Capital: Human, Social and Cultural

O autorze

Jacek Tittenbrun is Professor of Sociology and Chair of Economic Sociology at the University of Poznan, Poland. He is author of Economy in Society: Economic Sociology Revisited; Private Versus Public Enterprise; and The Collapse of Real Socialism in Poland.