Caliban and the Witch

Paperback, 288 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 01 Ottobre 2004 da Autonomedia.

ISBN:: 978-1-57027-059-8

(1 recensione)

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.

"It is both a passionate work of memory recovered and a hammer of humanity's agenda." Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged"

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Lucas ha recensito Caliban and the Witch di Silvia Federici

Engaging and provocative, fearless and harrowing

5 stelle

Caliban and the Witch was excellent. I feel changed by Federici’s work, and in how I understand the history and uses of misogyny, of sex, of commons and community and spiritual institutions. This book, despite being quite broad and in parts knowingly speculative, has been useful to me in pointing at so many of the ways in which we have been shaped—through violence, belief, division—into the societies and economies of today.

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