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

David J. Blacker

ISBN 10: 1789040108 / ISBN 13: 9781789040104

Published by John Hunt Publishing, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What's Left of the World: Education, Identity and the Post-Work Political Imagination
• Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789040108
• ISBN 13: 9781789040104
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 168 grams

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Synopsis

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.

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 Illinoiss 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.