What's Left of the World: Education, Identity and the Post-Work Political Imagination

What's Left of the World: Education, Identity and the Post-Work Political Imagination

by David Blacker
What's Left of the World: Education, Identity and the Post-Work Political Imagination

What's Left of the World: Education, Identity and the Post-Work Political Imagination

by David Blacker

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Overview

In 1960, Paul Goodman argued that the Fordist system that treated people as mere cogs in a machine had created a profound unhappiness in young people and in American society as a whole. More than half a century later, professor David Blacker recognizes that decades of neoliberalism have pushed young people beyond unhappiness and into a collective identity crisis. Overall, Americans no longer feel needed to do jobs that had previously anchored them in society and are becoming disconnected and purposeless. The proliferation of new identities, based not on work but on consumption, is symptomatic of neoliberalism and its hyper-commodification and deregulation of everyday life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789040104
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 06/01/2019
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Blacker is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Legal Studies at the University of Delaware. He has given dozens of presentations at academic institutions worldwide, and he was selected by the University of Illinois’s Center for Advanced Study for its prestigious campus-wide MillerComm Lecture Series. Blacker is a regular on radio and podcast shows such as, The Majority Report, for which he was selected by listeners as a Best Interview of the Year. He lives in Newark, Delaware.

Table of Contents

Preface: Useless education 1

Introduction 17

Chapter 1 Identity proliferation

Respectable creatures: From autonomy to automation 31

Liquid modernity and identity proliferation 57

Chapter 2 Liquid paideia

Exclusive inclusivity 78

Higher nihilism 94

Chapter 3 The hollow left

Moral superiority? 112

The egalitarian left 122

Chapter 4 Moral motivation and worldview

The Nietzschean extrapolation 132

World building options 146

Traditional biblical religion 156

Identitarianism 162

Futurism 168

Worldview fusions 174

Chapter 5 A world made of Earth

The intrusion of Gaia 183

Feral activists 193

Permaculture and refugia 199

Epilogue 204

Notes 211

Index 246

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