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Resignation and Ecstasy: The Moral Geometry of Collective Self-Destruction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Resignation and Ecstasy: The Moral Geometry of Collective Self-Destruction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-10
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Resignation and Ecstasy challenges critical sociology and social philosophy to theorize neoliberalism from the standpoint of a moral economy of sacred forces that both frustrates and facilitates conceptual unifications in the quest for collective solidarity.

Disintegration: Bad Love, Collective Suicide, and the Idols of Imperial Twilight
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

Disintegration: Bad Love, Collective Suicide, and the Idols of Imperial Twilight

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  • Published: 2020-02-17
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Together again for the first time, Marx and Durkheim join forces in the pages of Disintegration: Bad Love, Collective Suicide, and the Idols of Imperial Twilight for a dialectical exploration of the moral economy of neoliberalism, animated, as it is not only by the capitalist chase for surplus value, but also by an immortal vortex of sacred powers. Classical sociology and psychoanalysis are reconstituted within Hegelian social ontology and dialectical method that differentiates between the ephemeral and free and the eternal and fixed aspects of modern life.

Speculative Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Speculative Management

In this timely work, Dan Krier examines the relationship between two phenomena that dominated the economic scene in the late twentieth century: the rising power of financial markets and the restructuring of American industry. He argues that corporate governance was transformed during this period into speculative teams of stock-optioned executives and activist owners. These teams encouraged a vigorous restructuring of American industry through corporate buyouts, takeovers, reengineering, and downsizing. Often portrayed in business discourse as initiatives to enhance the efficiency and long-range profitability of industrial operations, these corporate changes were, instead, primarily what Krie...

The Sociogony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

The Sociogony

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-11-26
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Sociogony re-examines the social ontology of what Durkheim calls ‘social facts’ in the light of critical and progressive hostilities to the facticity of facts and the necessity of moral absolutes in the shift from bourgeois liberalism to a neoliberal global order. The introduction offers a wide-ranging rumination on the concept of the absolute after its apparent downfall; the chapter on facts turns the problem of external authority on its head and the chapter dealing with the sociogony situates facts in a process of generation, rule, and decay. Drawing heavily on the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, the resulting synthesis is what the author refers to as a Marxheimian Social Theory that offers a new map and a stable ontology for the homeless mind.

Capital in the Mirror
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Capital in the Mirror

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics. Aesthetic objects, crafted as poetic reflections of the contradictory worlds that they inhabit, are simultaneously theorized and theorizing. In Capital in the Mirror, eminent critical theorists explore the aesthetic dimension for reflective visions of capital that are difficult to obtain through even the most rigorous statistical analyses. Chapters address inequality, alienation, ideology, warfare, and other problems of contemporary capitalism through the cultural prisms of Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, Charles Dickens, J...

Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-04-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding post-modern consumer society. It examines the escapist potentials for good and for ill in modern society - those fostered by commercial interests, and those maintained by individuals and groups as their form of resisting alienation.

Philosophical and Political Consequences of the Critique of Political Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Philosophical and Political Consequences of the Critique of Political Economy

This book extends the approach that Murray and Schuler develop in their companion volume, False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory: Losing Public Purpose. The chapters form a connected inquiry into consequences of capital, a far-reaching social form, through a critique of political economy and the mindset it shares with much modern philosophy and social theory. The authors call this bifurcating mentality factoring philosophy. Factoring philosophy mistakes the distinguishable for the separable. It splits the subjective and objective, form and content, and it takes the object of social theory to be an impossible economy-in-general, stripped of constitutive social forms. The critique of factoring philosophy structures the collection, which makes a wide-ranging contribution to the research field of the critique of political economy as critical social theory. Ultimately, this book solidifies Murray and Schuler’s impact on the study of political economy, political philosophy, modern philosophy, Hegel, Marx, and critical theory.

Brazilian Bourgeoisie and Foreign Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Brazilian Bourgeoisie and Foreign Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023
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  • Publisher: BRILL

With notable originality Tatiana Berringer presents, theoretically and empirically, a truly consistent Marxist analysis of Brazilian foreign policy under FHC and Lula governments, and reflections on Dilma, Temer, and Bolsonaro governments.

African-Australian Marriage Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

African-Australian Marriage Migration

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-09-13
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In African Australian Marriage Migration: An Ethnography of (Un)happiness, Henrike Hoogenraad offers an account of journeys of marriage migration among couples consisting of an Australian woman and a migrant man from the continent of Africa.

Wrestling with Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Wrestling with Democracy

Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century. In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change.