Reconstructing Individualism

America has a love-hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of cl

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“I devoured Finding Jake. The tension is almost unbearable in this thriller-cum-character study as layer after layer of a father’s soul are revealed as reflected in the character of his missing son. Utterly engrossing.”—Alice LaPlante, New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Wives and Turn of MindA heart-wrenching but redemptive story of psychological suspense told from the point of view of the father of a boy who is unaccounted for during a school shooting, in the vein of Reconstructing Amelia and Defending Jacob.While his successful wife goes off to her law office each day, Simon Connolly takes care of their kids, Jake and Laney. Now that they are in high school, the angst-ridden father should feel more relaxed, but he doesn?t. He’s seen the statistics, read the headlines. And now, his darkest fear is coming true. There has been a shooting at school.Simon races to the rendezvous point, where he’s forced to wait. Do they know who did it? How many victims were there? Why did thi

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掌握資本主義的「概念史」才能找出推翻體制之道！超越左翼思潮的物質性論述從人性角度對資本主義提出真正關鍵的批判葉啟政集數十年思想大成之鉅著本書從西方社會思想史出發，檢視資本主義體制的發展，及相應的各方論述。無論是資本主義的擁戴者或反對者，雙方對這種經濟體制的想像，往往聚焦在物質性的層面，而未能關注其背後的人性底蘊。這正是為什麼某些社會主義思想未能擺脫經濟主義的泥淖，仍擁抱發展至上的信條，甚至走向歧途，演變成史達林主義式的獨裁壓迫。本書主張，在資本主義體制及相關論述的背後，存在著一套關於「人性的心理學」之預設。古典自由主義者霍布斯、洛克、亞當斯密的學說，將人人共享的「動物性」──自我保全的本能、慾望、需求──抬升到存有論上的核心地位，當「自利」的概念得到語意上的洗白，因應而生的「追求私利可成就公益」之論述，則為資產階級的心態打下了基礎，也讓「貪婪」的概念愈來愈得到正當化。馬克思作為最知名的資本主義反對者，其共同體主義（communism，多被翻作「共產主義」）的理念，時常遭到世人誤解，當中最遭受忽略的部分，莫過於他的思想對亞里斯多德的承繼。根據亞里斯多德，共同體的最小單位應是家庭，而非自由主義哲學家所設想的「個人」，而經濟的發展更不應該導向財富無止盡的積累。馬克思延續這名古希臘哲學家的說法，指出政治的目標在於令人們實現潛能，也就是讓人可以成為「全人」，以此發展出公正、消弭剝削的社會關係。事實上，資本主義的剝削，除了存在於資方與勞方、權貴與人民之間，更展現於人類與生態之間，馬克思對於「自然」的看法，便早已預示到了這一點。為此，要超越資本主義，我們就必須超越資本主義誘使眾人信以為真的「動物性」預設，並以「共同體主義」傳統下的「人文性」主張來分庭抗禮。換言之，主導文明演進的驅力，不能再是利己、競爭、擴張等觀念，而是要以友愛、互惠、民主等「生命美學」原則為本，並且應當要鼓勵節制、自制、自足式的在地化生產模式，以便達成人對集體與自然的共感共應。分冊介紹上冊「從政經聯合體到共同體主義」首先從社會史著手，指出資本主義不只是經濟體制，而是打從誕生之初，就與政治力量有著共生關係。其次，本書分別爬梳以霍布斯為首的「持具個人主義」（possessive individualism）以及馬克思的共同體主義思想，最終則指出社會主義的初衷在遭受史達林式政權的扭曲下，如何激發西方馬克思主義者（Wes

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