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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; v.253 |
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Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series
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| Contents |
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Love -- 2 Lying -- 3 Outline -- Chapter 2 Love and Politics: Some Existing Views -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Is Love? -- 3 Why Do People Fall in Love? -- 4 Consequences and Politics of Love -- 5 A Critique of Existing Views on Love -- Chapter 3 Towards a Marxist Theory of Love: Trans-historical Aspects -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Love as a Social-Emergent Effect of a Mental and Physical Connection |
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3 Love Is More Than a Relation between Two Individuals -- 4 Love Is a Conscious 'Labour Process', an Activity -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Towards a Marxist Theory of Love: Love in Class Society and in Socialism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Love in Pre-capitalist Class Society -- 3 Love and Capitalist Economy -- 3.1 Capitalist Property Relation, and Commodity Fetishism -- 3.2 Alienation -- 4 Love and Class Consciousness in Capitalism -- 5 Love, Extra-economic Coercion, and Special Oppression in Capitalism -- 6 Love in a Socialist Society (and in the Anti-capitalist Movement) -- 7 Conclusion |
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Chapter 5 The Post-truth Condition in Capitalist Society: Its Major Characteristics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Truth about Post-truth -- 2.1 Post-truth on a Spectrum -- 2.2 Lying in Post- truth Condition -- 2.3 Facts vs Feelings in Post-truth -- 2.4 Post-truth Relativism and Attitude to Truth -- 2.5 Post-truth Attitude towards Experts -- 2.6 Immorality and Demagogy of Post-truth -- 3 Post-truth's Philosophical Affinity with Postmodernism -- 4 Post-truth's Political Implications and Fascistic Tendencies -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Towards a Marxist Theory of the Post-truth Condition |
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1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Materialism and Political Lying -- 3 Contradictions of Capitalism -- 3.1 Fundamental Contradictions -- 3.2 'Conjunctural' Contradictions -- 4 Contradictions of Capitalist Imperialism -- 5 Opposition to Regulation, and Capitalist Politics -- 6 Capitalist Production of Lies as a Commodity -- 7 Media of Lies as Capitalist Commodity -- 8 Lying by the 'Victims' of Capitalism -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Post-truth Phenomenon: a Concrete Study with a Reference to India -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Traits of India's Post-truth Politics |
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2.1 Ideological and Political Lies/Half-Truths -- 2.2 Accumulation of Lies by Means of Suppression of Dissent -- 2.3 Class-Blindness of Right-Wing Post-truthers -- 3 Explaining India's Post-truth Phenomenon -- 3.1 Economic Misery -- 3.2 Countering Political Action by the Masses -- 3.3 Crisis of Bourgeois Politics -- 3.4 Capitalism's Fascistic Agencies -- 4 A Critique of the Right-Wing Post-truth Politics and Thinking in India -- 4.1 The Right-Wing's Denigration of Dissent -- 4.2 Culturalism and Communalism in Right-Wing Post-truth Politics -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Conclusion |
| Summary |
The world experiences rampant ideological/political lying and absence of genuine love. Capitalism utilizes lies to hide its contradictions causing people's suffering which undermines genuine love. The right-wing capitalist politics is a politics of hatred, justified by lies. The analysis of love and lying, as aspects of capitalist culture, has important practical implications for the struggle for socialism |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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1 Brief Summary |
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Love -- Philosophy
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Love -- Social aspects
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Capitalism -- Philosophy
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Communism and love.
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Truthfulness and falsehood -- Political aspects
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Capitalism -- Philosophy.
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Communism and love.
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Love -- Philosophy.
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Love -- Social aspects.
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Truthfulness and falsehood -- Political aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004540002 |
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9004540008 |
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