Global Economic Crisis As Social Hieroglyphic - Genesis, Constitution and Regressive Progress

This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "social hieroglyphic", arguing that the crisis is not fundamentally economic, but instead a symptom of a long-standing, multifaceted, and endemic crisis of capitalism which has effectively become permanent.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Capitalism in permanent crisis, 1920s–1930s 2. Political crisis and the crisis of modernity: Eastern Europe (1953–1968) 3. The crisis of Keynesianism, the transformation of liberal oligarchies and the critique of politics 4. The crisis of critique, the eclipse of subversive reason and the question of social constitution 5. The crisis and metamorphoses of the bourgeois individual: On negative anthropology 6. Capitalism as social regression: Destructive tendencies and new forms of barbarism 7. The 2008 economic crisis as an alienated critique of capitalism

About the author

Christos Memos is Lecturer in Social and Political Theory at the Abertay University, UK. He is the author of Castoriadis and Critical Theory: Crisis, Critique and Radical Alternatives (2014).

Summary

This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "social hieroglyphic", arguing that the crisis is not fundamentally economic, but instead a symptom of a long-standing, multifaceted, and endemic crisis of capitalism which has effectively become permanent.

Product details

• Authors: Christos Memos, Christos (Abertay University Memos, Memos Christos
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.01.2023
• EAN: 9780367754648
• ISBN: 978-0-367-75464-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory