POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - German Idealism, Class Consciousness, Feudalism
5 Dec 2012
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Northwest part of europe featured enormous changes. Twin revolutions 16th-19th centuries, agricultural and industrial. Agricultural revolution: may be hyperbole to use the word revolution here. Ex: raw cotton processed in british factories. 1837: 366 million pounds a 16 fold in increase in fifty years. Amount of iron processed into steel in english factories. A tenfold increase in a fifty year period- produced gigantic changes. Luxuries came to be seen and mere decencies and decencies came be seen as necessities. Distribution highly uneven but now creation of middle class that had risen from manual labor to professional r entrepreneurial status. Industrial revolution: social results (1) capacity to produce surplus (2) increasing complexity of division of labor (3) new forms of social consciousness. Need to accommodate new groups within politics. Feuerbach and critique of german idealism (hegel). Taking everything that"s good inside of us and putting it outside of ourselves; god did not create man, man created god (his view)
