Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation

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Raphael Sassower is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of several books, most recently, The Specter of Hypocrisy (2020) and The Quest for Prosperity: Reframing Political Economy (2017).

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Offering a detailed analysis of the essential role enslavement played in the success of the British and American capitalism, Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation describes the logic of dividuation, a logic that veils its motives and practices with ever cleverer myths.

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Introduction
Chapter 1: Capitalism and Enslavement
a. Graeber's Continuity Thesis of Capitalism
b. Expropriation, Extraction, exploitation, and Enslavement as Essential to Capitalism
c. The Antebellum South as proto-capitalist
d. Primitive Wealth Accumulation as the Engine for European and American Industrial Revolutions
Chapter 2: The Logic of Dividuation
a. Anthropological Contrast of Western Individual and non-Western Dividual
b. Antecedents to Deleuzian dividuality Capitalist Enslavement
1) Adam Smith and Karl Marx on the Division of Labor: the Logic of Abstraction
2) Parsing the Human: from expropriation to Labor Power and Enslavement
c. Appadurai's Financial Dividuation During African Enslavement
d. Psychosocial Traces of Dividuation as Dehumanization
Chapter 3: The Tension of Dividuality and Individuality
a. Commodification: Humans as Property
b. Behavioral Control: From Flesh to Desire
c. Human Hierarchy Racialized and Sexualized
d. Emancipatory Potentialities
Chapter 4: The Logic of Dividuation at Work
a. Feminist Critiques
b. The Afterlife of Enslavement (Human Trafficking)
c. The Carceral State (Prisoners at Work)
Conclusion
References
Index