How Capitalism Forms Our Lives - Paperback

by Alyson Cole (Editor), Estelle Ferrarese (Editor)

By using the concept of capitalism as a "form of life", the authors in this volume reconceive capitalism, and its mechanisms and effects on our bodies and on our common life. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

Author Biography

Alyson Cole is Professor of Political Science, Gender Studies, and American Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY), USA. She is the author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror (2007), and co-editor of Michael Paul Rogin: Derangement and Liberalism (2019).

Estelle Ferrarese is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Verne University, France. Her authored and edited books include Vulnerability and Critical Theory (2018), La fragilité du souci des autres: Adorno et le care (2018), The Politics of Vulnerability (2017), and Éthique et politique de l'espace public: Jürgen Habermas et la discussion (2015).