Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Commodification, Martin Heidegger
2 Nov 2017
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Week 7 - modernity & its critics (tutorial) Modernity begins somewhere in the 1500s. Modern political thought: roughly the mid/late 1500s until late 1800s/early 20th century. Modern: present/recent times, departure from the past, breaking from past ideas, values and practices. New institutional structures: the modern state; popular elections; rule by/of law; secular bureaucracy; independent judiciary; capitalism; monogamous marriage; imperialism. Social order had a natural or divine purpose. Replacement of magic and deep meaning by scienti c calculation/rationalization. We want things to be explained in an orderly way. Everything in the world to be demysti ed, make sense in a rational, scienti c way. Ex. nature (why did earthquakes happen vs now we understand scienti cally) Anti-modern resistance is futile (modernity can never be removed) Commodities for market exchange, exchange value trumps use value. Workers become commodities, reality of capitalist relations makes from people.
