UID:
almahu_9949701873102882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 298 pages)
ISBN:
9789004300293
Series Statement:
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 85
Content:
Capitalisms' Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique frames 21st century economic and social possibilities in a dialogue between two forms of critical social theory: Marx's critique of political economy that analyzes capitalism and the critique of political psychology that analyzes authoritarianism. Contributions from social theorists in sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies are brought together to dissect and critique capitalist crises, left-liberalism, left-Thatcherism, resistance to risk-pooling, idealist philosophy, undemocratic social character, status wages and authoritarian spectacles. Throughout, Marx's centrality to critical social theory is confirmed, both alone and in in powerful combination with Adorno, Durkheim, Dubois, Lacan, Veblen, Weber and others. This book outlines conjoined critiques of commodity-fetishism and authority fetishism as the emancipatory agenda of 21st century critical theory. Contributors are: Kevin S. Amidon, Graham Cassano, Tony A. Feldmann, Daniel Krier, Christian Lotz, Patrick Murray, David Norman Smith, Tony Smith, William J. Swart, and Mark P. Worrell.
Note:
"This volume developed from the 2014 Symposium for New Directions in Critical Social Theory at Iowa State University, June 24-6"--Introduction.
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Preliminary Material /
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Introduction /
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Capitalism's Future: Self-Alienation, Self-Emancipation and the Remaking of Critical Theory /
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Beyond Left Liberalism: A Critical Look at Proposals to Reform the Capital/Wage Labor Relation /
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Left Thatcherism: Recent Critical Theory and Post-Marxism(s) in the Light of Marxian Social Ontology /
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Capital's Reach: How Capital Shapes and Subsumes /
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Easing the Encumbered Subject: Security, Speculation, and Capitalist Subjectivity /
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The Idolatry of Mind: Durkheim's Critique of Idealism /
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Social Character in Western Pre-Modernity: Lacanian Psychosis in Wladyslaw Reymont's The Peasants /
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Critical Pragmatism's Status Wage and the Standpoint of the Stranger /
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Dark Spectacle: Authoritarianism and the Economic Enclosure of American Motorcycling /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Symposium for New Directions in Critical Social Theory (2014 : Iowa State University) Capitalism's future Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] ISBN 9789004300309
Language:
English
Keywords:
Conference papers and proceedings.
