The social ontology of capitalism / Daniel Krier, Mark P. Worrell, editors..

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
  • ©2017
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xvii, 300 pages ; 22 cm

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    Political philosophy and public purpose
    Summary note
    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 remains as vital as ever and serve as a guiding light for the continued exploration of the philosophical underpinnings of critical inquiry and praxis.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The social ontology of capitalism: an introduction / Daniel Krier and Mark P. Worrell
    • Part I. Abstract
    • Social ontology and social critique: toward a new paradigm for critical theory / Michael J. Thompson
    • 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 prospect of artifice / Harry F. Dahms
    • The sacred and the profane in the general formula for capital: the octagonal structure of the commodity and saving Marx's sociological realism from professional Marxology / Mark P. Worrell
    • Social form and the 'purely social': on the kind of sociality involved in value / Patrick Murray and Jeanne Schuler
    • Part II. Concrete
    • Debt in the global economy / Tony Smith
    • Representing capital? Mimesis, realism, and contemporary photography / Christian Lotz
    • Demand the impossible: Greece, the Eurozone Crisis, and the failure of the utopian imagination / David N. Smith
    • The constellation of social ontology: Walter Benjamin, Eduard Fuchs, and the body of history / Kevin S. Amidon and Daniel Krier
    • The body ontology of capitalism / Daniel Krier and Kevin S. Amidon
    • The morality of misery / Tony A. Feldmann.
    ISBN
    • 9781349950614 (alk. paper)
    • 1349950610 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2016959442
    OCLC
    951643411
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