Arendt and the Social Question: A Post-Marxist Analysis

Richard Sobel and Annette Disselkamp

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018, vol. 50, issue 2, 270-285

Abstract: With the help of the regulationist theory of the wage-labor nexus and the historical sociology of the wage system, this article questions the limitations of Arendt’s concept of the “social.†To provide a fully relevant political theory, Arendt is missing the idea of institutional and collective supports for the effective exercise of democracy by the greatest number, which is precisely the subject which Castel’s historical analyses stressed with the concept of “social property.â€

Keywords: social question; wage-labor nexus; social property; Arendt; Castel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B51 B52 N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613416670965

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