Profitable Ideas: The Ideology Of The Individual In Capitalist Development: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 15 - Softcover

Scholarly attempts to explain the development of liberal individualism over the course of modern history have tended to focus on key principles and doctrines. Here, O'Flynn shows that that as capitalism continues to grow, the theories, doctrines and moral precepts comprising liberal individualism change and evolve, while its vital social function is preserved. Scrutinising the development of liberal individualism in terms of its social function, connecting related doctrine and principles to the opportunities and obstacles to capital accumulation over the course of history.

Micheal O'Flynn, Ph.D. (2005) in Philosophy, University of Limerick, is an Associated Lecturer in Social Science with the Open University and teaches sociology part-time at the University of Limerick. He has published articles for Critique: Journal of Socialist Ideas, EU Reporter and book reviews for Review of Radical Political Economy and Millennium.