The Bourgeois and the Savage : A Marxian Critique of the Image of the Isolated Individual in Defoe, Turgot and Smith (9783030395100)

This classic text in Italian history of political philosophy, translated into English for the first time, investigates the philosophical and ideological conceptions hidden beneath the modern image of the isolated individual. In The Bourgeois and the Savage, Alfonso Maurizio Iacono reveals that this apparently simple and transparent image is imbued with a profound complexity containing human and social relationships, which are intertwined with relationships of power, domination, inequality, colonisation and servitude. As Karl Marx argued, and as was later confirmed by twentieth-century anthropology, the isolated individual does not stand at the beginning of history; he can emerge only where social relationships are already very developed and where society appears as a tool used for private purposes. Considering the writings of Daniel Defoe, the great French Enlightenment philosopher Turgot, and the father of political economy Adam Smith, The Bourgeois and the Savage critically analyses the process which led to the naturalisation of the image of the isolated man and traces its development and transformation into a still dominant paradigm.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 147 pages
• Dimensions 148 x 210 x 10mm | 222g
• Publication date 02 Apr 2021
• Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
• Publication City/Country Cham, Switzerland
• Language English
• Edition Statement 2020 ed.
• Illustrations note Bibliography; Illustrations, black and white
• ISBN10 3030395103
• ISBN13 9783030395100

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