Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion - Wealth, Suffering, Negation

This book explores a variety of themes central to contemporary Marxist thought and its development as a critical social theory, advancing a focus on social rather than economic categories and identifying the unrest of life and class struggle as characteristic of capitalist society, to be resolved in the communist society of human purposes.

List of contents

1 A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion: Wealth, Suffering, Negation PART ONE Society as Process of Compulsion 2 Real Abstraction: On Capital and Class; 3 Money as Social Power: On Labour and Value; 4 World Market and Crisis: On Capital and its State PART TWO Practical Humanism and the Reason of Negation 5 Social Coldness and Practical Humanism: On Counter-Hegemony and Governmentality; 6 History and Freedom: On Social Justice and Class Society; 7 On Communism and the Philosophy of Now-Time. A Conclusion Postscript. On the necessity and impossibility of communism

About the author

Werner Bonefeld is Professor of Politics at the University of York, UK. He is the author of Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy and The Strong State and the Free Economy.

Summary

This book explores a variety of themes central to contemporary Marxist thought and its development as a critical social theory, advancing a focus on social rather than economic categories and identifying the unrest of life and class struggle as characteristic of capitalist society, to be resolved in the communist society of human purposes.

Product details

• Authors: Werner Bonefeld, Werner (York University Bonefeld
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032318776
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231877-6
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy