Capitalism's Future
Alienation, Emancipation and Critique
Description
This collection brings together contributions from social theorists in sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies 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 powerful combination with Adorno, Durkheim, Dubois, Lacan, Veblen, Weber and others
Author Bios
Daniel Krier (Ph.D. Kansas) is associate professor of Sociology at Iowa State University. His writings on critical theory and political economy include Speculative Capitalism: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (W.H. Freeman & Co., 2005) and the co-edited volume Capitalism’s Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique (Brill 2016).
Mark P. Worrell, Ph.D. (2003) in Sociology, University of Kansas, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Cortland.
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Publication date: December 5, 2017
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Daniel Krier and Mark P. Worrell
TOWARDS A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF CRITICAL THEORY
1. Capitalism’s Future: Self Alienation, Self-Emancipation and the Remaking of Critical Theory
David Norman Smith
SECTION 1: CAPITALISM’S FUTURE AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
2. Beyond Left Liberalism: A Critical Look at Proposals to Reform the Capital/Wage Labor Relation
Tony Smith
3. Left Thatcherism: Recent Critical Theory and Post-Marxism(s) in the Light of Marxian Social Ontology
Christian Lotz
4. Capital’s Reach: How Capital Shapes and Subsumes
Patrick Murray
5. Easing the Encumbered Subject: Security, Speculation and Capitalist Subjectivity
Kevin Amidon and Daniel Krier
SECTION 2: CAPITALISM’S FUTURE AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
6. The Idolatry of Mind: Durkheim’s Critique of Idealism
Mark P. Worrell
7. Social Character in Western Pre-Modernity: Lacanian Psychosis in Wladyslaw Reymont’s The Peasants
Daniel Krier and Tony Feldmann
8. Pragmatism's Status Wage and the Standpoint of the Stranger
Graham Cassano
9. Dark Spectacle: Authoritarian Performance and the Commodity Form
William J. Swart and Daniel Krier
Index
