Disintegration: Bad Love, Collective Suicide, and the Idols of Imperial Twilight - Volume Two of Sacrifice and Self-Defeat

Marx. Durkheim. Critical Theory. Disintegration brings sociology, psychoanalysis, and dialectics together to offer a rousing critique of modern life.

List of contents

Preface
 Acknowledgements
 List of Figures
 Abbreviations
 Introduction
 1 Marxheimianism and the Return of the Repressed
 2 Freedom and Anomie
 3 Dynamism, Alienation and Reification
 4 Masters and Slaves
 5 Authoritarianism, Character, and Resonance
 6 Disobedience and Necessity
 1 Reflective Determinations
 1 The Lifeless Universal
 2 The Judgement
 3 The Syllogism
 4 Telos
 5 The Idea
 6 Necessity Versus Necessity
 7 The Commodity
 8 The Dialectic
  2 Bad Love
 1 The House of the Absolute
 2 The New Economy and the Reign of Tyche
 3 The Nightmare of Collective Unconsciousness
 4 Suicide
  3The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
 1 Egoism
 2 Altruism
 3 Anomie
 4 Fatalism
 5 Composite Forces
 6 Positive Hell and Heavenly Negativities
 Bibliography
 Index

About the author

Mark Worrell, Ph.D. (2003), University of Kansas, is an Associate Editor at Critical Sociology and has published articles in a wide variety of critical social theory journals and has authored or edited numerous books.

Summary

Marx. Durkheim. Critical Theory. Disintegration brings sociology, psychoanalysis, and dialectics together to offer a rousing critique of modern life.

Product details

• Authors: Mark P. Worrell, Worrell Mark P.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2021
• EAN: 9781642594249
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-424-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Social and cultural anthropology, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, Marx and Durkheim, critical theory, Hegelian socia