Storia di un feticcio. English

Middle class : an intellectual history through social sciences : an American fetish from its origins to globalization / by Matteo Battistini.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

xiii, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

"Matteo Battistini offers a critical deconstruction of the fetish that social sciences have forged for legitimising American capitalism. The intellectual history of the middle class provides the social history of a political concept that assumes a specific scientific content acquiring an ideological centrality that has no equal in European history. The social sciences have freed the middle class from its historical relationship with work in an attempt to emancipate it from the tension into which it was continually dragged by class conflict. In this way, the social sciences overturn the image of opposing forces of labour and capital into a consensual order whereby capitalism and democracy would coexist without tension."-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Battistini, Matteo. Middle class Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

English

September 19, 2022

Includes bibliographical references and index.