Overview
Building on his highly original and always insightful earlier works on collective activity, in Origins of Collective Decision Making Andy Blunden turns his attention to the question of how groups make decisions. Examining three paradigms-Counsel, Majority, and Consensus based methods-Blunden discovers that each has unique ethical foundations, deeply rooted in the historical experiences of specific struggles.
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Author: Andy Blunden
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 9781608468041
ISBN 10: 1608468046
Pages: 257
Publication Date: 05 December 2017
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In this engaging and accessibly-written study, Andy Blunden seeks to uncover the history of how people have arrived at decisions on a shared course of action to achieve common goals... [I]n the wake of the Brexit vote and the Trump presidential victory, and in the context of allegedly 'post-truth politics', this is a valuable and serious look at what it means to reach genuinely collective decisions. --Steph Marston, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books The result is a highly original, wide-ranging and continuously challenging dialogue between the sources and their implications. --Stuart Macintyre (University of Melbourne), in Labour History, no. 112 (May 2017) In this engaging and accessibly-written study, Andy Blunden seeks to uncover the history of how people have arrived at decisions on a shared course of action to achieve common goals. Along the way, he provides interesting and sometimes surprising case studies of collectivity in various social and institutional formations, drawn from three continents and a range of cultural practices... [I]n the wake of the Brexit vote and the Trump presidential victory, and in the context of allegedly 'post-truth politics', this is a valuable and serious look at what it means to reach genuinely collective decisions. --Steph Marston, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books -In this engaging and accessibly-written study, Andy Blunden seeks to uncover the history of how people have arrived at decisions on a shared course of action to achieve common goals. Along the way, he provides interesting and sometimes surprising case studies of collectivity in various social and institutional formations, drawn from three continents and a range of cultural practices... [I]n the wake of the Brexit vote and the Trump presidential victory, and in the context of allegedly 'post-truth politics', this is a valuable and serious look at what it means to reach genuinely collective decisions.---Steph Marston, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books In this engaging and accessibly-written study, Andy Blunden seeks to uncover the history of how people have arrived at decisions on a shared course of action to achieve common goals. Along the way, he provides interesting and sometimes surprising case studies of collectivity in various social and institutional formations, drawn from three continents and a range of cultural practices [I]n the wake of the Brexit vote and the Trump presidential victory, and in the context of allegedly post-truth politics, this is a valuable and serious look at what it means to reach genuinely collective decisions. Steph Marston, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
In this engaging and accessibly-written study, Andy Blunden seeks to uncover the history of how people have arrived at decisions on a shared course of action to achieve common goals. Along the way, he provides interesting and sometimes surprising case studies of collectivity in various social and institutional formations, drawn from three continents and a range of cultural practices [I]n the wake of the Brexit vote and the Trump presidential victory, and in the context of allegedly post-truth politics, this is a valuable and serious look at what it means to reach genuinely collective decisions. <b>Steph Marston, <i>Marx and Philosophy Review of Books</i></b>
In this engaging and accessibly-written study, Andy Blunden seeks to uncover the history of how people have arrived at decisions on a shared course of action to achieve common goals. Along the way, he provides interesting and sometimes surprising case studies of collectivity in various social and institutional formations, drawn from three continents and a range of cultural practices... [I]n the wake of the Brexit vote and the Trump presidential victory, and in the context of allegedly 'post-truth politics', this is a valuable and serious look at what it means to reach genuinely collective decisions. <b>--Steph Marston, <i>Marx and Philosophy Review of Books</i></b>
Author Information
Andy Blunden is an editor of the journal Mind, Culture, and Activity and Secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive. His previous work includes, An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity (2010), Concepts: A Critical Approach (2012) and Collaborative Projects: An Interdisciplinary Study (2014).
