Krier / Worrell Capital in the Mirror

Critical Social Theory and the Aesthetic Dimension
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7777-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in New Political Science

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krier, Dan

Worrell, Mark P.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

The Mirror of Capital: An Introduction to Critical Poiesis
Dan Krier and Mark P. Worrell

PART I. TWILIGHT

1. An Insane Book, an Insane Country, an Insane System: Moby-Dick, U.S. Hegemony, and the Catastrophe of Capital
Tony Smith

2. Marxist Aesthetics, Realism, and Photography: On Brecht's War Primer
Christian Lotz

3. The Poetics of Nihilism: Representing Capital's Indifference in Dickens' Hard Times
Patrick Murray and Jeanne Schuler

4. The Repressed Returns: Mann's Doctor Faustus and the Fugue of Capital
Dan Krier

PART II. DAWN

5. "Shakespearean Politics" and World History
Tony Smith

6. The Radical Implications of Hölderlin's Aesthetic Rationalism
Michael J. Thompson

7. From Mirror to Catalyst: Whitman and the Literature of Re-Creation
James Block

8. The City of Brothers
Mark P. Worrell and Dan Krier

9. Critical Theory, Sociology, and Science-Fiction Films: Love, Radical Transformation, and the Socio-Logic of Capital
Harry F. Dahms

10. Magical Marx: Objective Method and Aesthetics
Mark P. Worrell

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dan Krier is Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University and the author of Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change, also published by SUNY Press. Mark P. Worrell is retired Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York College at Cortland and serves as an associate editor for the journal Critical Sociology. Together they have coedited The Social Ontology of Capitalism and Capitalism's Future: Alienation, Emancipation, and Critique.