[Pen-l] David Brooks goes Behavioral

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Charles Brown wrote:


Of course, "the typical individual" 
is an oxymoron anyway, in the 
sense that "individual" is mean 
to convey some sense that every 
individual is unique. 

The Grundrisse passage criticizing "Raobinsonades" doesn't reject
 the idea of "the typical individual", 
an idea that Marx himself makes
 use of, e.g. in his conception of
 the capitalist "passions".

^^^
CB: Yeah,  that paradox has some 
joking in it

The issue is more precisely
 that human individuals are 
not "isolated individuals" 
( as Marx terms it, not 
"independent individuals",
 are not "natural individuals" 
 in the sense that their economic
 behavior is an expression of 
Social Darwinist type naturally selfishness.









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