Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This figure of masculine authority persisted from the Medieval period to orchestrate what is called here Manorial Capitalism. The second examines the exploitation and alienation that epitomize the logic of capitalism from the plantation economy to the present. And the third deploys retroactively the logic of dividuation to the plantation, a logic that draws its inspiration from neoliberal financial capitalism as well as from anthropological accounts (which distinguish the dividual from the Cartesian-Kantian individual). This book argues that reducing individuals to dividuated components continues to enable a dehumanizing capitalist mindset to fixate on abstracted labor power rather than seeing laboring individuals.
Offering a detailed analysis of the essential role enslavement played in the success of the British and American capitalism, Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation describes the logic of dividuation, a logic that veils its motives and practices with ever cleverer myths.
Introduction Part I Manorial Capitalism
Chapter 1: The Paternal Figure
(or Father Complex) as the Site of Power Relations
Chapter 2: Incorporation
into the Political Economy Canon Part II Enslavement
Chapter 3: Exploitation
as the Constitutive Feature of Capitalism
Chapter 4: The Afterlives of
American Enslavement Part IIIThe Logic of Dividuation
Chapter 5 The Dividual,
the Individual, and the Loss of Social Fabric
Chapter 6 The Fractured Human
Being By Way of Concluding
Raphael Sassower is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of several books, most recently, The Specter of Hypocrisy (2020) and The Quest for Prosperity: Reframing Political Economy (2017).
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