Living with Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Working Class....Pages 1-5
Class Dismissed: The Issue Is Accountability....Pages 7-10
Letter from a Lovelorn Pre-Radical: Looking Forward and Backward at Martin Luther King Jr.....Pages 11-24
In Search of a New Left, Then and Now....Pages 25-31
The Status of Class....Pages 33-35
“Fix the Tired”: Cultural Politics and the Struggle for Shorter Hours....Pages 37-51
Literary and Real-Life Salesmen and the Performance of Class....Pages 53-58
Money Changes Everything? African American Class-Based Attitudes toward LGBT Issues....Pages 59-77
Democracy without Class: Investigating the Political Unconscious of the United States....Pages 79-90
Re-Forming Class: Identity, Wealth, and Cultural Transformation in South Africa....Pages 91-99
Whiteness as Currency: Rethinking the Exchange Rate....Pages 101-105
Dying with Class: Race, Religion, and the Commodification of a Good Death....Pages 107-116
New Materialisms and Digital Culture: Productive Labor and the Software Wars....Pages 117-129
Feminist Theory and the Critique of Class....Pages 131-143
Criminal Class....Pages 145-157
Consuming Class: Identity and Power through the Commodification of Bourgeois Culture, Celebrity, and Glamour....Pages 159-167
When Prosperity Is Built on Poverty, There Can Be No Foundation for Peace, as Poverty and Peace Don’t Stand Hand in Hand....Pages 169-187
Solon the Athenian and the Origins of Class Struggle....Pages 189-201
Memories of Class and Youth in the Age of Disposability....Pages 203-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-229