Capital in the Mirror
Critical Social Theory and the Aesthetic Dimension
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2020
344 pages
978-1-4384-7777-0 (ISBN)
Description
Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism's darkest dynamics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 2
Total Illustrations: 2
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-7777-0 (9781438477770)
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Persons
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.
Content
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
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
