America in Absentia Nicholas Ruiz III
http://intertheory.org/absentia
ISBN: 0978990218 cultural theory/philosophy/current affairs
Release Date: October, 2008
Product Description "The unifying principle of the world is Capital. Ethical conceptions are helpful here. Where a 'fact' is verifiable, a 'value' is relative. In a special case, Capital is an ethical fact by virtue of its valuation, always in flux and exchange. Like moral value, Capital is in the eye of the beholder. Still, this does not mean that there is a grand unifying theory of the real, because the world seeks fragmentation at all times. Life trumps the world by its persistence in the face of inevitable death. Extermination, in the total sense, is the highest stake on the table between the world and life. America is the highest bidder in this speculative game. Let us hope she is bluffing."
About the Author Nicholas Ruiz III is Associate Professor of Humanities in the Daytona State College, USA. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Capital and Integral Reality (with Robert Hassan). He is also the editor of Kritikos.