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Context 1: The Field of Nonpossession Context 1: The Field of Nonpossession
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Context 2: The Scene of Belle Époque Socialist Antimaterialism Context 2: The Scene of Belle Époque Socialist Antimaterialism
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Ethics: Asceticism and Eudaimonism Ethics: Asceticism and Eudaimonism
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Version A: The Worker as Ascetic Version A: The Worker as Ascetic
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Version B: The Laborer’s Eudaimonia Version B: The Laborer’s Eudaimonia
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Metaphysics: Two Types of Potentiality Metaphysics: Two Types of Potentiality
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Politics: Competing Exceptionalities Politics: Competing Exceptionalities
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One After Virtue: The Strange Case of Belle Époque Socialist Antimaterialism
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Published:March 2014
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Abstract
This chapter concerns British labor agitations from 1910 to 1913 involving workers from disparate industrial sectors. Directly fuelled by the duplicitous welfarism of the new liberals, these strikes exemplified a complicated non-virtuous antimaterialism among proletarian constituencies that went against the grain of the dominant belle époque critique of consumption. Borne of ideological continuities between early twentieth-century liberalisms and totalitarianisms traced in the introduction, the orthodox antimaterialism of the era was an ethics of phusikaphobia or recoil from the physical world that lent itself to provincial anti-collectivism. By contrast, the heterodox antimaterialism of some labor agitators crystallized as philophusikia or a reparative love of things, particularly the alienated objects of possession. This is available to reading as a resourceful will toward collectivity. The discussion draws on journalistic testimonies, syndicalist journals, and Guild socialist literature, especially the writings of R. H. Tawney.
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