Capitalism's Future

Vorwort
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Autorentext
Daniel Krier (Ph.D. University of Kansas) is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University where he teaches sociological theory. He has published a book Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (SUNY) and numerous articles on finance capital, political economy, critical theory and historical sociology.

Mark P. Worrell (PhD University of Kansas) is Associate Professor of sociological theory at SUNY Cortland and has authored books on war, terror, and The Frankfurt School and the revolutionary potential of the American labor force during World War Two. Worrell has published widely in critical social theory journals including Telos, Rethinking Marxism, Fast Capitalism, Logos, and is currently an Associate Editor at the journal Critical Sociology.

Klappentext

This book outlines conjoined critiques of commodity-fetishism and authority fetishism as the emancipatory agenda of 21st century critical theory.

Inhalt
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