The Social Ontology of Capitalism by Daniel Krier (English) Paperback Book

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This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and countervailing forces that shape modern life.

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This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and countervailing forces that shape modern life. From a robust and self-consciously sociological framework, it analyzes and interrogates such issues as the nature of the social, the power of the sacred, the nature of authority, the problem of representation, reification, alienation, utopia, and collective resistance. Historical materialism reveals that the scope of productive functions is broader than the crude realism of economism. Marx's critical theory of the commodity and his analysis of the capitalist regime of accumulation remain as vital as ever and serve as a guiding light for the continued exploration of the philosophical underpinnings of critical inquiry and praxis.  

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This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and countervailing forces that shape modern life. From a robust and self-consciously sociological framework, it analyzes and interrogates such issues as the nature of the social, the power of the sacred, the social nature of authority, the problem of representation, reification and alienation, utopia, and collective resistance. Marx's historical materialism and his recognition that "productive functions" were broader in substance than narrow economism remain as vital as ever. This book utilizes that as a compelling guide for continued exploration into the philosophical underpinnings that ground critical inquiry and praxis.

Author Biography

Dan Krier is Associate Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University, USA. He is the author of Speculative Management:  Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (2005), NASCAR, Sturgis and the New Economy of Spectacle (with Bill Swart, 2016), the editor of Capitalism's Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique (with Mark P. Worrell, 2016) and has published academic articles in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Critical Sociology, and Fast Capitalism.Mark P. Worrell, Associate Professor at SUNY Cortland, USA, has published widely in critical social theory journals including Telos, Rethinking Marxism, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Fast Capitalism, Logos, and Critical Sociology, where he also serves as an Associate Editor. His books include Terror: Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives (2013), and the edited volume Capitalism's Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique (with Dan Krier, 2016).

Table of Contents

Social Ontology and Social Critique:  A New Paradigm for Critical Theory .-  Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century. The Logic of Capital between Classical Social Theory, the Early Frankfurt School Critique of Political Economy, and the Power of Artifice Harry Dahms .- The Sacred and the Profane in the General Formula for Capital: Re-Mapping the Capitalist Mode of Production for both Skeptics and Bamboozled Realists .- Social Form and the "Purely Social": Toward better Understanding Value and the Value-Form .- The Political Economy of Debt and the Present Moment of World History .- The (In)Visibility of Capital. Reflections on Film, Lukacs, and Contemporary Critical Realism .- Demand the Impossible:   Greece, the Eurozone, and the Anti-Utopian Complex .- The Constellation of Social Ontology:  Walter Benjamin, Eduard Fuchs, and the Body of History .-  The Body Ontology of Capitalism .- Critical Theory and the Morality of Misery.

Feature

Offers a fundamental rethinking of the ontological foundations of the contemporary economic and political situation Contains both abstract, metatheoretical chapters and empirical investigations of the contemporary debt crisis, Greece and the European Union, artistic representation, and risk-pooled subjectivity Carries out a rich interdisciplinary inquiry drawing from philosophy, social sociology, political science, and cultural studies

Details ISBN1349958913 Author Mark P. Worrell ISBN-10 1349958913 ISBN-13 9781349958917 Format Paperback Language English Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-12-12 Pages 300 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Mark P. Worrell DEWEY 300.1 UK Release Date 2018-12-12 AU Release Date 2018-12-12 NZ Release Date 2018-12-12 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 300 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color. Edition Description Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Series Political Philosophy and Public Purpose Alternative 9781349950614 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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