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This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure
of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and
countervailing forces that shape modern life. From a robust and
self-consciously sociological framework, it analyzes and
interrogates such issues as the nature of the social, the power of
the sacred, the nature of authority, the problem of representation,
reification, alienation, utopia, and collective resistance.
Historical materialism reveals that the scope of productive
functions is broader than the crude realism of economism. Marx's
critical theory of the commodity and his analysis of the capitalist
regime of accumulation remain as vital as ever and serve as a
guiding light for the continued exploration of the philosophical
underpinnings of critical inquiry and praxis.
This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure
of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and
countervailing forces that shape modern life. From a robust and
self-consciously sociological framework, it analyzes and
interrogates such issues as the nature of the social, the power of
the sacred, the nature of authority, the problem of representation,
reification, alienation, utopia, and collective resistance.
Historical materialism reveals that the scope of productive
functions is broader than the crude realism of economism. Marx's
critical theory of the commodity and his analysis of the capitalist
regime of accumulation remain as vital as ever and serve as a
guiding light for the continued exploration of the philosophical
underpinnings of critical inquiry and praxis.
In this provocative and original monograph, Krier and Swart argue
that NASCAR and the carnivalesque displays at Sturgis's mass
motorcycle rallies reveal how spectator events of this scale have
come to function as intensive sites of profit making in
contemporary capitalism. The authors lucidly trace the historical
development of these economic spectacles and analyse the structural
components that sustain them.
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.
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