The social as metaphor and the case of cooperatives : a critique of economic individualism / by Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia and Yair Levi

Includes bibliographical references and index

The thinking-talking human being and his categories of thought -- The speaking-acting subject and the symbolic register -- The speaking-acting individual and the imaginary of the'social' discourse -- Interdependence and places of wandering -- Symbolic delimitation vs imaginary bonds -- Anthropological debt vs imaginary work places -- Readiness to lose vs imaginary places of production -- Conclusion -- Images, myths and stereotypes -- Origins and constituent elements -- Tensions and inconsistencies -- Interpreting the socio-economic duality -- The paradoxes of cooperatives -- Case studies -- What have we learned from cooperatives? -- Summary and conclusions -- Thinking'nestedness' as a system of constituent rules -- Thinking the political with the categories of the symbolic : the case of South Africa -- Thinking the virtual more real than reality : the Citta Aperta, Sicily -- Conclusions